My son got me a flash drive for a Christmas gift and we used it to carry everything I wanted to have on my new computer by dragging the folders to the flash drive until it was filled, then transfered the files to the new computer. Then transferred the files on the flash drive to the new hard drive in the new computer.

I think there's two issues at work with your comment mikie. The first, which many historians have spoken about, is that the lost habits of letter and diary writing mean that much less material will be available for historical analysis in the future. Email archives aren't as common as boxes stuffed with old letters, and email archives typically have much more worthless stuff in them. The second thing, the changes in storage media over time, I think isn't so much of a problem. There used to be lots of stuff stored on 8 and 5.25 inch floppy disks. They're not lost to the future, that worth keeping was migrated to later generations of storage media. Places like the Library of Congress and National Archives are digitizing many parts of their collections to protect the availability of their contents for the future. All that stuff gets rolled forward as technology changes.

Ah, very interesting. The link below is for Lexar, the 2 smaller sizes fail to show a price but the 1gig is about $30 Kingston also has one but the price is $84 Having skimmed the Lexar article it might seem to me once the person had access they would still be able to modify the content. A CD burned and finalised would certainly be a cheaper route and could not be modified unless the contents were copied to a computer. Here is a link that might be useful: Lexar Secure II drive

I buy the flash drive wallets which have slots for each one in it, I have bought them at walmart for around $4-5 each and they hold several. You can put a label in the slot with the flash drive or if you have a label maker you can put a label or code right on the flash drive. If you use a code system then just put the list of codes in the storage wallet with those coded ones. You can also store a document on each flash drive that lists it's contents so that you just insert the flash drive then go to that document file to view what you stored on it. Case Logic USB Flash Drive Case for 6 Drives, Blue you can just google flash drive cases for other options