On 25 Oct 2007 20:01:10 -0700, nimbusgb wrote:

I have been reading an old thread about digital chart storage on
remote usb drives.

A lot of speculation about power consumption and particularly
hardiness.

Any half way modern laptop will have plenty of space on the hard disk
for digital charts. I have the NOAA raster charts for the entire
country plus a few Canadian charts in a little over 1 GB. For backup,
CDROMs are more than adequate.