Comment by deltarholamda

Agree with this strongly. It's nice to have thousands of photos, but if what you're trying to do is preserve memories, you do that best by interacting with the photos.

Choosing the photos to include, plus doing the scrapbooking bits to decorate the photos, and including all the bits and bobs you might have acquired from whatever even you're memorializing, this locks the memories in far better than a carefully architected storage system that, in the end, is just a giant wad of binary data.

This goes double (or triple) when you have young children.

By all means maintain some kind of digital storage, but make your primary physical.