Have you thought of other options other than saving your precious data on hard disks, thumb drive or on DVD disk? People, all walks of life, from farmer to politician like Obama or Clinton, billionaire like Bill Gates or the Sultan of Brunei, artist like Leona Lewis or Brad Pitt, have one in common, they possess pc or a notebook or both. And most of us save our data on notebook or desktop.
The other options is to save your data and pictures on Email a/c like Yahoo.com; Gmail.com; Email2me.com; Netzero.net (paid); Netscape.aol.com; Bluebottle.com (spam free email); mail.lycos.com; Netzoola.com; Hushmail.com(email is encrypted, scanned for virus and filtered for spam); Netaddress.com;Care2.com (Care2 donates to the Environment and other good causes). For students, teacher controlled email a/c are Bigstring.com & Gaggle.net. And using email a/c is secure and virus free.
Even the latest desktop, like Apple iMac with 1 x 320 GB or Apple Mac Book Pro with 250 GB or HP Blackbird 02 with 2 hard drive (160 GB and 500 GB) or Dell XPS M1530 with 500 GB, but most importantly - you will never run of space by using Email a/c ever again.