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portable hard drive

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portable hard drive

A disk drive that is plugged into an external port on a computer such as USB or FireWire. Typically used for backup, but also as secondary storage, such units rival internal drives in capacity. For laptops, the PC Card slot may be used to connect a cable to a full-size drive, or the hard disk may be contained entirely inside the PC Card. See USB drive.

Portable Hard Disk
Plugging into a USB 2.0 or FireWire port, Iomega's HDD Portable Hard Drive provides 30GB of external backup or secondary storage. (Image courtesy of Iomega Corporation.)


PC Card Drive
The hard disk is entirely contained in this PC Card from Toshiba. PC Card drives are the simplest addition to a laptop computer, because they all have PCMCIA slots. The PC Card interface may also be used to plug in a cable from a very large portable hard drive.



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York uses networked computers in the office, and cell phones, a laptop and a portable hard drive on the road.
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5" Ultra Portable Hard Drive can be used for a variety of applications such as quickly transferring documents between office and home, boosting your PC's storage capacity, and backing up important files, all while fitting in the palm of your hand.
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0 portable hard drive that's compatible with PCs and Macs.
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