removable drive

Digital files should be locked and/or password-protected or kept on a removable drive.

She downloaded movies — home movies and Hollywood classics — to a removable drive.

If you prefer to keep your files on the ground anyway, for security or other reasons, look for a program that syncs files locally between your computer and a removable drive.

If you need to get a copy from the cloud, you must view it and download it to your computer or a removable drive by midnight Eastern time on July 20, Ms. Miller said.

That precaution, which requires a second set of credentials to perform risky operations such as copying files onto a removable drive, has been among the principal security responses to the Snowden affair.