I have an external hard drive connected via usb, how can I view the contents?

I'm new to Mac... I have an external hard drive, I plugged it in to the usb port but don't know how to view the contents.  What do I do?

Open Finder (by clicking on the icon int he Dock) and your external USB disk should show up in the left pane under "Devices".
Note that it has to be formatted for Mac if you want to read and write data.

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