Typically refers to storage in an external hard drive or on the Internet. The main "memory" in the computer is the computer's workspace, not its storage facility. See external storage. THIS ...
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.
It wasn't all that long ago when external hard drives used to be enormous cubes, that made black box recorders on commercial airliners look petite in comparison. Today, the vast majority of them ...