We (Patty) has either 13 or 15 photo albums that each hold 200 pictures. THEY ARE FULL! And that's just the pics (her favorite ones)she has printed off. When our other computer crashed she lost 46 GIGS of pictures! Don't know how many that actually was, but it was North of 15 thousand!
We bought our daughter an external hard drive.
She keeps copies of her pictures on her laptop, my desktop and her hard drive.
Her special ones get burned onto dvd's which we store at my parents place in case of fire.
When her two friends were killed in July, she was so happy that she was able to give photos to the parents showing their good times