A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) that resides outside the computer's case, typically connecting via USB or eSATA. A USB flash drive is also external storage. See portable drive and USB drive.

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External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct ... as well as store any data that you don’t need on your computer’s fast internal storage. They’re also extremely handy for transporting data ...