[Mahadragon]

Don't understand why the cloud isn't a viable alternative. Exactly how slow are your upload speeds? I don't see why you can't just sync your photos with Dropbox, Onedrive or any other cloud solution overnight, wake up and it's done. Also don't understand the volume of photos. If you take so many pictures there's no way all those photos are keepers. With programs like Lightroom and Aperture, it's not hard to export a lot of compressed photos and storing those (as smaller files) into the cloud. If you want, you can export those photos in higher resolution and then zip them up later on to compress the file size so it doesn't take so long to upload.

 

For me, I just have my favorite pictures scanned and burned to DVD. Easy.