Definition of External drive

1. Noun. A drive with its own power supply and fan mounted outside the computer system enclosure and connected to the computer by a cable.

Generic synonyms: Drive

Lexicographical Neighbors of External Drive

external carotid artery
external carotid nerves
external carotid plexus
external cause
external causes
external cephalic version
external collateral ligament of wrist
external conflict
external coupling
external couplings
external cuneate nucleus
external defibrillator
external dental epithelium
external drive (current term)
external ear
external ears
external exudative retinopathy
external fertilization
external fistula
external fixation
external fixators
external gill
external haemorrhoid
external haemorrhoids
external hydrocephalus
external iliac artery

Literary usage of External drive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. JTEC Panel Report on Display Technologies in Japan (1993)
"A1000 x 1000 simple monochrome active matrix has 1 million TFTs and requires 2000 connections to external drive circuitry. Currently these external circuits ..."

2. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"JBOD systems from Granite Digital At the most basic level, external drive storage enclosures are JBODs—an auxiliary case that holds “Just A Bunch Of Disks. ..."

3. Denmark by OECD Staff, SourceOECD (Online service) (2006)
"Government-wide drivers of user-focused e-government A very good example of the external drive towards user-focused e-government in Denmark is the Top of ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"Sometimes one feels that the external drive towards research by university sentiment leads to many puny efforts and to abortive results. ..."

5. A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology by Roy A. Allan (2001)
"Apple released a second 3.5-inch external drive in the early summer. The other storage limitation was the lack of a hard drive. ..."

6. London by George Laurence Gomme (1914)
"By 1816 the external drive and the roads, fences, and plantations had all been completed, the bed of the ornamental water had been excavated, and so much of ..."

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