Portable Drives

Portable drives are is any storage media that is connected externally to a computer and is non-volatile so it retains all the data stored typically on of two types of drive, flash and magnetic. They work on a plug and play interface such as USB and thunderbolt.

The magnetic form is a 2.5 inch HDD which draws enough power from a USB connection to run the drive, they offer high storage capacity at a low price but they can be damaged from drops especially is the drive is powered.

Flash storage is more expensive per GB but it won’t get damaged from a drop as easily, they most commonly come the form of USB flash drives which require a tiny amount of power to run.