[BevS97]

Please please please don’t make it the only home for your photos or important documents.

All hard drives can fail and external hard drives are more prone to fail as they get carried around / bumped / dropped etc.

They are very useful but have another copy somewhere. Ideally in the cloud.

I like google photos. You can store unlimited photos for free (reduced size but good enough) and you can set up your phone to save every photo you take automatically.