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Definition: storage drive
Hardware that stores data without power until intentionally erased. Since the 1960s, the hard drive has been the computer's internal and external storage units; however, solid state drives (SSDs) are increasingly replacing hard drives and are almost exclusively the storage medium in new laptop computers. Smartphones, tablets and any device with a computer chip employ only SSD storage. See hard drive, storage device, storage vs. memory and computational storage drive.
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An External Storage Drive
As solid state drives get larger, faster and less expensive, so do hard disk drives. This promo for SSDs dates back to the 1990s.
This one-terabyte (1TB) USB drive is highly portable external storage. By 2017, Kingston Technology debuted a 2TB USB drive. See USB drive.