Or if you're in a DIY mood, I once saw a video of a guy who built his own custom enclosure for video use (and it was pretty wicked).
He built a box in which he put a USB 3.0 hub, two USB3 to SATA adapters and two USB3 memory card readers. He put both drives as mirroring RAID so that the data would be safe. Since he was on USB3, the transfer speeds were pretty mindblowing.
I've had plans to do something similar for some time, except with a twist. I would use 3 hard disks in a stripping RAID with parity configuration and only one card reader (since I don't need to import that many cards anyway). That would give me speeds that are next to internal drive fast and still keep my files secure.
But that's just nerdiness from my part
Thanks for this Francois but (and please don't take this as me being in any way critical) I haven't got a clue what any of that means
I have never been a tecchie and doubt I ever will be. I've heard of RAID but wouldn't know one if I tripped over one. The problem is that if I go to a computer hardware shop, they could sell me anything and I wouldn't know whether it was good, bad or indifferent. I've found my way round a Mac and it does the job my old PC used to do but, for me, a lot quicker / more efficiently and it takes up a hell of a lot less space. I have a 1TB G-Tech portable hard drive attached to it and I'm going to start uploading photos I want to keep from the disks I burned that were originally stored on my PC (and Seagate) hard drive. I'll buy some more capacity though, as I doubt 1TB will be enough.
Apparently, there was a way to move the data direct from PC to the new Mac but, despite people telling me what kit I needed and how to do it, I never figured it out and ended up burning CDs before binning my old, slow and perpetually crashing, PC.
I'll retain the CDs and have their content on a hard drive. I've thought about using Flickr for additional storage but (and I can't explain why) it just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe it's all the stuff around them trying to claim rights over photos posted there or the uncertainty over Yahoo's impending sale. However, between negs, CDs and a hard drive, I'm hoping that'll be enough to protect my little collection - at least for now.