external drive

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   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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Questions about external drive

What does external drive mean?

external drive means "a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable".

Is external drive a common word?

external drive is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.