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.

A combo port that connects to external SATA (eSATA) drives and USB devices with cables up to two meters long. The eSATA USB Hybrid Port (EUHP) also eliminates the external power cable by supplying ...

Unlike Seagate's new Enterprise Constellation drives, the WD Caviar Green family targets desktop PCs, workstations, desktop RAID systems, and USB, FireWire or eSATA external hard drives ...