While almost any external at the shop will do, you wrote "store" and this is the beginning where folk discover externals are not really storage. They tend to lose content faster than internals so this is only used when you have your backups all done.
So yes, almost any drive will do but don't get yourself "storing" your last copy of what you can't lose on an external.
Hello, I want to get 7 years of photos off my Emachines W3623.
I would prefer to offload the photos onto an external hard drive, but not sure how to buy one that is compatible with the USB connector ports on a 2008 PC. I am not sure what search terms to use. I looked at the tech specs for the PC but don't know enough USB terminology to do a search.
Any help would be appreciated.

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