external drive

Other forms: external drives

Definitions of external drive
  1. noun
    a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable
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    type of:
    drive
    (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium
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