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external drive
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Noun1.external drive - a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cableexternal drive - a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable
drive - (computer science) a device that writes data onto or reads data from a storage medium


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