Information location by data compression

The invention relates to a device for data storage having a compression coder (14) and / or decoder (22) for storing image data in a compressed or decompressed data format in a data memory (12), wherein the compression coder (14) and decoder comprises (22) means to produce data segments (36) and locate. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for storing image data (10) in a compressed or decompressed data format in a data memory (12) of a device for data storage having a compression coder (14) and decoder (22) for compressing or decompressing the image data (10), wherein the image data is divided into data segments, wherein said location information (28) of the data segments (36) are stored for localization.