Get the biggest hard drive you can

Get the biggest hard drive you can for your internal drive on your main computer. Put all the things you really care about on this drive - pictures, movies, home movies, music, etc. so that it's always with you. Resist saving money by putting important data on external drives that you are required to cart around, bring cables and power supplies for and worry about. Sometimes you'll have to go to a hi-tech guru near you to get the bigger hard drive installed. It's worth it. Also, use Carbonite to have the files from this main drive backed up nightly with no work added to your to-do list. Carbonite only allows you to use this one, main drive for backup, so make it as big as you can!