yes, I am going this route and uploading the data to google photos. It will take 7 days to move ~300GB. I discovered that apple uses gcloud underneath and that

yes, I am going this route and uploading the data to google photos. It will take 7 days to move ~300GB. I discovered that apple uses gcloud underneath and that gcloud/gdrive is the fastest drive service compared to the others. So bought more drive space and move everything there with rclone.