I am looking at buying an external hard drive, 500 gb,or 1 tb, to use for movie storage from my laptop.My question is,can I run it on my tablet,too? it does not have a usb port,just the standard charging port
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I am looking at buying an external hard drive, 500 gb,or 1 tb, to use for movie storage from my laptop.My question is,can I run it on my tablet,too? it does not have a usb port,just the standard charging port
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If you connect your tablet to a PC via the cord from the tablet to a USB port on the PC, you could copy things from the tablet via the PC to the external HD. I've never tried going in the other direction (i.e. from the PC to the tablet).
Very few tablets support what you are trying. But there is a way.