# Best Practise to use an External Drive

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/best-practise-to-use-an-external-drive/21739>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Created:** [July 23, 2019, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/best-practise-to-use-an-external-drive/21739 "2019-07-23T09:08:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![janvda](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/janvda/32/1271_2.png) [@janvda](https://forums.balena.io/u/janvda)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 6:40am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/best-practise-to-use-an-external-drive/21739/17 "2019-07-29T06:40:33Z")

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See also my response here : [How to add persistent storage for Balena OS on Raspberry PI?](https://forums.balena.io/t/how-to-add-persistent-storage-for-balena-os-on-raspberry-pi/15929/26)

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