You should never rely on the cloud for your primary backup. Not because it's inherently unsafe: cloud backup is probably an order of magnitude or maybe several orders safer than your 2 separate backup drives. The primary problem is bandwidth. It will take a long time to restore a lot if files if it becomes necessary.

You should rely on your 2 (or 3 or more) separate backup drives for your primary backup. If you have a problem they are there for you and the restore speed is as fast as it can get. You should rely on a cloud backup service as your secondary backup system. Your 2 drives are in your house. If there is a disaster involving your house, those drives will be lost. If you put a third drive somewhere away from your house, it could be lost in a regional disaster (less frequent, but not unheard of). A cloud backup is maintained by professionals, as opposed to your separate drives, which are maintained by an amateur. The cloud backup is widely distributed, probably across countries if not continents, so a regional disaster will not affect it.

Local storage for backup. Cloud storage for backup backup.

Naturally, it all depends on the value you place on your files (ALL your files, not just your photos).

For the last 2 days "occasionaly" I've been trying to weed out the junk "Dell" put into my computer and little by little I'm getting there. I wish there was a list that I could go down one by one and kill everything not needed. I'm doing all this because my overall aim is to setup my desktop system only for imaging including video and it will all be copyrighted. Also, I do not keep a connection "on" to the internet unless I send a file or download something I want. So here recently I've been thinking about going ahead and getting Lightroom/Photoshop because the Windows picture file system/disk burner system sucks, and I'd rather have editor that I'm familiar wth even tho my last one was Photoshop 7 on a Mac. So I "guess" my connection has to be on all the time for Photoshop. So a couple of questions; Does anyone here use a VPN and which one, and secondly I don't want any "Cloud Sh** to automatically take place and I'd rather run extras drives so if you have any preferences there I'd appreciate it. Btw, the OneDrive system in Windows is automatic I guess cause I don't remember signing up for it, and I don't want any of that. I would appreciate any hints you have to help me realize my goal, thanks.

For the last 2 days "occasionaly" I've been trying to weed out the junk "Dell" put into my computer and little by little I'm getting there. I wish there was a list that I could go down one by one and kill everything not needed. I'm doing all this because my overall aim is to setup my desktop system only for imaging including video and it will all be copyrighted. Also, I do not keep a connection "on" to the internet unless I send a file or download something I want. So here recently I've been thinking about going ahead and getting Lightroom/Photoshop because the Windows picture file system/disk burner system sucks, and I'd rather have editor that I'm familiar wth even tho my last one was Photoshop 7 on a Mac. So I "guess" my connection has to be on all the time for Photoshop. So a couple of questions; Does anyone here use a VPN and which one, and secondly I don't want any "Cloud Sh** to automatically take place and I'd rather run extras drives so if you have any preferences there I'd appreciate it. Btw, the OneDrive system in Windows is automatic I guess cause I don't remember signing up for it, and I don't want any of that. I would appreciate any hints you have to help me realize my goal, thanks.