Yup... that's why as soon as I transfer them to the PC, I move on to step 2 and immediately burn them to DVD.. I typically use Ritek DVD which I have found to work perfectly with my system. Newegg sells them for $20 / 100... so cheap but so good that I just naturally do it now. Also, I have my system set to auto-backup new files to my EHD every Wed night at midnight... so just in case.. I know at least they are backed up on my EHD as well.