Originally Posted by marilynk

For the pictures and "stuff" I would suggest getting a burner so you can burn them to CD and then delete them off your computer or saving them to disc. This serves two purposes: if your computer crashes you have the pictures, documents, whatever on disc. And deleting that stuff, will free up memory and may make your computer run faster.

Currently we burn all our digital photos to disc, any of the documents that we create or scan in are burned to a disc (for example, we scan in our check stubs, then burn them to disc. Then delete them off the computer and destroy the paper copies...)