The best thing is to have online storage. There are many sites that do this and many let you have 2gb free. Carbonite is a really nice one. If your computer crashes everything on it is stored and easy to download right back on a new or fixed computer. It's a great piece of mine if you have lots of paid for downloads, important files, and especially all your pictures. Not having back up online storage will be a big regret. Disc stoage is okay but many formatted discs will not download again to another computer, I found this out the hard way.