With music now available online, storing songs, sites, graphics, or whatever else suits your fancy is a nice, clean digital affair. Your hard drive will probably suffice for most of your storage needs.
Purchase the largest hard drive you can afford. You can easily fill up the space - especially if you get addicted to games, which require a great deal of storage space. Like RAM - you'll never have too much hard drive space.
Floppy disks are a problem. One MP3 song, for example, can weigh in at about 4.5MB. A floppy can hold only about 1.4MB. That's a squeeze. Though you may try to compress a song, floppies don't really make a lot of sense for these kinds of things and are becoming obsolete anyway.
At some point, you probably want to take your tunes on the road. For more general, transportable storage needs, a portable storage device like a USB flash drive is a nice way to travel. These solid-state wonders have no moving parts to wear out, and can store anywhere from 128MB to a whopping 1GB in a form factor that's about the size of a keychain. Plus, a USB 2.0 model can transfer an entire album's worth of songs in under 15 seconds!
Another medium for storing your MP3 and other computer sound files is the recordable CD or DVD. You can get yourself a CD or DVD recorder and, with the right software, burn audio CDs that you can play in most conventional CD players. You're limited to putting up to 80 minutes of audio on each disc.
If you store MP3 files as data files, you can get tons of songs (up to 700MB worth) on a single CD. However, if you go that route, you can't play the discs in older CD players (though more and more new CD and DVD players have the ability to play MP3 files).
http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/storing-audio-files-on-your-pc/153095;_ylt=AtlwlVrhbmPXhAIdtZkEfnsSLpA5
