My old laptop is starting to shut down, and so I was going through the process of backing up all my important files on the cloud just in case it died on me. I use Onedrive with the 1TB storage, and I just realized how little storage onedrive actually had once I started to hoard files.
So I got to researching external hard drives and SSDs, which one might be best, what brand, etc.
My problem is that a lot of the photos on onedrive are my childhood photos and family photos my parents had in a hard drive that I happened to find one day before they were accidentally thrown out. My parents want to access them randomly some times so I need them to be able to access the files themselves without going through me.
I wanted to create a large pile of hard drives divided into family photos, personal files etc that I can keep in storage and access when I need it. My worry is that my parents aren't that tech savvy, so they might not be able to use it without me. I'm going off to university soon, and I won't always be there to help them out in case of trouble.
In this case, would it be better for me to get hard drives for myself and have a secondary cloud storage just for my parents so they can access it easily? I would prefer for it to be in a hard drive so I don't have to worry about maintaining two methods of storage, and if there is a way to make the hard drives accessible as possible, what would it be.