External Drive
The external-drive icon represents a removable storage device, often used to symbolize data transfer or backup.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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External Drive in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const ExternalDriveIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
<g fill="none" stroke="currentColor"><path strokeLinecap="round" strokeWidth="1.5" d="M20 14v-4c0-3.771 0-5.657-1.103-6.828S16.02 2 12.471 2h-.942C7.98 2 6.205 2 5.103 3.172S4 6.229 4 10v4c0 3.771 0 5.657 1.103 6.828S7.98 22 11.529 22h.942c3.549 0 5.324 0 6.426-1.172S20 17.771 20 14Z"/><path strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="2" d="M16 18h.009"/><path strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="1.5" d="M4 15h16"/><path strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="1.5" d="M8 6h2M8 9h2"/></g>
</svg>
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What the External Drive icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The external-drive icon represents a removable storage device, often used to symbolize data transfer or backup. This icon originates from the concept of portable storage and is frequently used in digital platforms to facilitate file management.
In real-world applications, the external-drive icon appears in various software and platforms, such as file explorers, backup tools, and data transfer apps. For instance, it might be used to represent a connected external drive or to initiate a file transfer.
From a UX perspective, the external-drive icon communicates a sense of data mobility and flexibility, helping users understand that a particular feature or interaction involves data transfer or storage. It can also serve as a visual cue to convey a sense of security or reliability.
External Drive is one of 4,585 icons in Huge Icons, made by Hugeicons and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 1.5 stroke.
Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds ExternalDriveIcon to components/icons/hugeicons-external-drive.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.
Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed ExternalDriveIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.
Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.
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It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.
Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 24 × 24 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.
External Drive is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 1.5. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.
Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.
Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="External Drive", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ExternalDriveIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExternalDriveIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.
Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.
Yes. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.
No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Huge Icons, Hugeicons and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
Its tags are UI, file, data, storage, hardware and peripheral. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for External Drive in another set.
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