Digital storage

Storing information off of my hard drive has been on my mind a lot lately, having recently upgraded to a new hard drive after my crash. I know that I want to organize all of my photos and get them on CD's. There is also the matter of documents, though. My son is a class at school that utilized thumb drives to take their information with them wherever they go. I think I would like something with a little more storage capacity, though. I've been reading about micro sd cards, and I'm thinking that might be just what I need. The only problem that I can see is that they are so small, I'd be afraid that I might lose mine. I'm always thinking that with the kids' Nintendo DS games. Those things are tiny, and I just know they're going to lose them - but, they don't. Hmm...interesting. How on earth does that work? That a kid can keep track of an itty bitty thing like that, and yet, they often can't find their shoes? Haha! Well, so maybe I wouldn't lose it. I do need to do something - I need to prepared for another crash. I don't ever want to go through that again! It was awful!