Nowhere is the charming old phrase ‘Don’t put all your eggs into one basket’ more applicable than in the world of data storage. Everyone interested in storing and manipulating images, making digital drawings, taking astronomical images with digicams and CCD cameras, and recording astronomical videos is wise to seek to backup their work in places other than solely on the computer’s hard disk drive.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Grego, P. (2009). Portable Data Storage. In: Astronomical Cybersketching. Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85351-2_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-85351-2_5
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-0-387-85350-5
Online ISBN: 978-0-387-85351-2
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyPhysics and Astronomy (R0)