How do I save/back-up pics & music from my eMac? Those USB thingies?

I have had my eMac for about 3 1/2 years. I still love it, but there seems to be a lot of issues that I cannot figure out and I am frustrated, so I am thinking about just getting a newer computer.
My question: How do I back-up, save the pics, music etc. that are on the computer. I guess not just because I want a new computer, but I guess it is really dumb of me not to have it back-up (or whatever the term is
I see this little USB things for sale all of the time at computer stores and at places like Target. Is that all I need or do I need an external hard drive?
I have about 2,000 songs and about 1,000 pictures.
Thanks a bunch!

Start here: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941>
To save your songs and pictures, you'll basically want to be saving them to an external hard drive or you can "burn"/save these files to DVDs/CDs, which can then later be transferred to your new computer.
The bigger the total size of the files you want to save, the bigger the requirement is for size of the backup destination for these files (external hard drive, DVD, etc.). In my opinion, a large size (40 GB and up) external hard drive is a wise investment in these days of digital media.
A small USB drive is likely to be too small for saving all the music and image files you're interested in saving.
It is simplest (and perhaps easiest) to backup your entire Home folder (Macintosh HD > Users > Home). This will also save any of your email from the "Mail" application as well as any Documents you've spent time creating.

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