Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
Google Photos has been my goto for a while now. The search feature is great and I use it frequently. For example, I was recently looking for a blue screen error code I&#x27;d taken a picture of months ago, and was able to find it within seconds by searching &quot;monitor&quot;. It&#x27;s really incredibly good, I&#x27;d say whatever model is on the backend is probably close to state-of-the-art. I recently hit the free limit, but for ~$3 a month I now have 100gb which I don&#x27;t expect to reach for years to come.<p>I don&#x27;t typically take photos of really private things, so the convenience of quick automatic backups from my phone and the availability of the search feature outweigh any privacy concerns I might otherwise have. I do also take local backups occasionally to my external hard drives in case Google somehow suffers major data loss.