a drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable
an easy way to increase hard-drive space without installing a new drive on your computer
An external drive is a hard drive or a floppy disk drive that is not built into your computer, but which is housed in a separate box that you connect to your computer. Source: TechSoup.org
"An external drive is not build into a computer, but is mostly attached to the computer via a USB 2.0 cable." + External ReWriters Go to top