i suggest you back them up on the drive..when i lost my computer to a virus, i lost everything! they are so cheap to buy now..2 gig, 4 gig..i bought a 2gig for 10 bucks on sale at walgreens a few weeks ago..plenty of room!

I love mine... both are 4 gigs that i bought right b4 christmas for $12 each.
but i generally use an external hard drive for my pics, as i have spent the last few years making computer graphics, when i didnt think i would be able to go back to quilting.

I have an external hard drive for backups and such (must remember to get that done sometime soon!), and store a lot of the pictures, music, etc., I have for my Palm TX on a removable SD memory card (similar to my camera's card).

Every high school kid I know carries one on their key chain. They live and die by those things. My daughter has dozens of papers, study guides, and notes on hers. Along with pictures and junk that she just has.

I have to chime in on this.

I learned the hard way that these flash drives are not the "be all and end all." As Amma said, these can fail and that is what mine did. None of the date could be recovered.

Amma had another good suggestion of subscribing to a backup service. However, if you do not want to spend the money, you should have several backups, AND do it regularly, not every 6-9 mos as I had done. Create backups on two flash drives plus an external hard drive, and save files to CD's also.

I had a string of bad luck in that the external hard drive that I backed up my files on died at the same time as the flash drive. I checked into some of the data recovery companies and they quoted me a fee of a minimum of $2500 to get data off the external hard drive! I finally found one that was cheaper at $700, sent the drive to them but unfortunately the data was unrecoverable. I am not sure if it is possible to recover data from a flash drive - may be Amma knows. (I got the impression from "experts" I talked to that it is not possible.)

That $50 subscription fee looks cheap compared to $2500.

I will sign off now so that I can run those backups that I have not done in a month.

What a great idea. I store my photos on photobucket. Is that safe?

Or you could get a 1.5 TB external drive,I store everything on there.