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external drive

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Noun1.external driveexternal 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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Even if the computer should fail, the data on the external drive will be accessible--all you have to do is unplug the drive and plug it into another computer.
Single external drives can be aggregated as one large external drive with an interface rate up to 300MB/s or these same drives can be integrated as a RAID 0, 1, 5 or even 3 to provide continuous data protection with absolutely no end-user interaction.
Understandably, however, you'll need to use an external drive for access to CDs and DVDs.
 
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