What is the best type of storage?Burning on Media?External Hard Disk?Flash Drive

Your point is quite clear. A large storage over file security? I have also been vacillating about this recently. It seems that files are more secure in DVDs or CDs than on file storage like HDDs, or Flash Disks. We'd just have to store those DVDs and/or CDs in safe places. Then there are times that those DVDs or CDs that contain those important files can't be read by the computer, somewhat technically losing the files we stored in them. I even though about file hosting sites but, you can never be sure if the sites would still be around for a long time. You can't also be sure on file transfers when you donwload them as well. Store them in e-mails as attachments which we can retrieve? I guess my I'd eventually choose DVDs and/or CDs as more secure for storage.

Burning to a disc I think is the best too. You just use a good and reliable media or disc, If you want it to last longer don't use cheap disc. Also make sure that you do a virus check before burning, so that you don't store infected data. Good luck.

I do not consider any one media type to be universally preferable, it varies according to what I am arching. I store a large amount of music and video on external drives, along with a great deal of images and other data. For interactive files such as Word documents or Excel spreadsheets that I use regularly I have a USB flash drive for easy access. The only time that I store anything on CD or DVD is if I wish to play it on my music centre or DVD player.

Well, we prefer to store it in our external hard disk but just to keep a back up, we store it in a DVD just incase.

for me i prefer using a storage external because it has a very lage capacity of soring files, video's and musics.. :)

if you want to keep save something really important (especially if it's a final copy and no adjustments will be made later) go for a media. get a good one that is reliable. you don't want your data to be unreadable later. i would suggest thumb/flash drive and external hdd for only data you don't mind losing if anything goes wrong. i learned my lesson the hard way. i have no problems with virus even though they managed to enter the hdd but that's it. my hdd corrupted. physical damage. two different high capacity hdd. ouch in short store all your driver installers in a media so you'll be able to retrieve them in case your computer needs to be reformatted. also all your important software and your documents if they are finalized. your other documents can be saved in ext hdd or flash drive. your photos and home videos go to the hdd with media as a backup and music can go to hdd with or without backup. you probably will listen to something else later. plus you can always download them later if you want. same goes to downloaded series or movies also do an online backup. just in case

I like storing my files on a cd. Its easy to store and simple to do. I like simple and easy when concerns computers:)

I think burning it to disk is the best storage as well probably the most reliable. I also store on externals but thats generally stuff I use more often and I would still keep those backed up too. Yeah ... always scan stuff before burning, and with externals try not to leave them on all the time.