I bought 3 - 2TB hard drives - 2 are always plugged into

What took me time is done in a heart beat...and I organized my clutters into fold ears in external hard drive

It can only scan on to the local hard drive

I also back up my files onto a external hard drive just to make sure I don't lose them.

I don't have a freaking CD drive!!!

there is a work around with an other product called "drop scan" but it all started to get too complicated and I decided to just scan to my hard drive and upload things to google docs later if I needed

My husband and I started a project to scan all of our important documents and save to a file that we can then save to an external hard drive and keep in out safe so we do not have to keep boxes/file drawers full of papers.

All a spooler does is to be the device that gathers up all incoming information and to write it out to the hard drive as quickly as possible.

My goal is to turn paper into searchable PDF files and then save those on my hard drive in a logical fashion for easy indexing by any one of several desktop search engines

I save to my hard drive, external drive, and Evernote

I have scanned and saved everything into folders to my external hard drive and backed it up each night using Mozy Home back-up

So after scanning a document, I just save the document to a well-named folder of my choice on my computer's hard drive and organize all scanned documents, thus, "by hand."I do recommend this product

No problem, I had everything backed up on an external hard drive

I'm hopeful that over time, I'll have an easier time searching my hard drive than a real filing cabinet

Tried installing the ScanSnap software on an HP Touchsmart IQ826t with 335 GB free space on hard drive and Windows 7 Home Premium operating system.

With the large capacity hard drives on the market today, there is no reason to store old bills, receipts, statements etc

The software that comes with it also allows you to scan documents directly to e-mail, directly to the printer, to Microsoft Word using OCR (optical character recognition), Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint or to any folder on your hard drive

I am in the process of scanning these records onto a portable hard drive

Well, it was until I installed the Scansnap CD on my computer, and the software takes it upon itself to just overwrite everything on my external hard drive without any warning

Easy to backup file to external hard drive.

I am in the process of scanning these records onto a portable hard drive

I like knowing that if my house is burglarized, I won't be an easy victim of identity theft (since my hard drive is encrypted).

This combined with external hard drive and online drive backups make paper records obsolete!

While not, hard drive space is cheap