What’s the best way to organise and store my digital photos?

Jan is planning to buy a new laptop with an SSD that won't have room for all her photos. How can she store them separately so that she and her husband can both view them?

I store my photos on a six-year-old MacBook Pro, which still has a traditional hard drive. My next laptop will probably have a 512GB or smaller SSD, so I will need another way to store them. I would like to share a database with my husband, so we can store family and travel photos from phones and cameras. I'm still uncomfortable with the thought of all my family photos being online somewhere, which I accept may be a little illogical as I do use cloud back up for other items.

The next part of the question is how best to manage photos. I use iPhoto (now Photos) and briefly looked at Adobe Lightroom, but didn't really need the pro features for the handful of times I shoot in RAW. However, iPhoto/Photos was/is creaking with the amount of photos I have. Jan

When storing digital photos, aim to have at least three copies of everything, preferably more. Ideally, all three sets of photos should be on different media, and one copy should be "off site", not in your home.