Making external hard drive the destination for audio files

Hello All,
I've been trying to figure out how to do this for about an hour now and I'm sure it is a simple thing...I'm just overlooking it.
Can you please post how to make my external hard drive the destination disk for my audio files.
Thank you!!!

Control-click on the record button in the transport window and select recording settings.

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