If you plug an external portable USB hard drive to a USB port, will it read?
308848
I have not had any problems plugging USB hard drives or memory devices into mine.
308849
Yes, if it has its own power supply. The GoDock needs a 2 amp supply for itself, so an additional load from USB device may overburden the GoDock.
393466
Yes, it only provides access to the drive via USB. You will need separate software for reading different filesystems (e.g. reading a windows hard drive from Mac / Linux) or any other operations you want to perform on the drive.
1554090
It does not work with a Seagate 1.5TB thick portable drive, keeps disconnecting when read/write to it. When connecting a small drive like WD 1TB, 80% of the time will be fine, but it disconnects as well. No matter what power adapter you use! I even tried to use a powered USB hub. It can read and recognize external drives connecting to a USB hub, but it will disconnect from time to time with no apparent reason.
513231
It depends on the device you have. What device are you using with this drive?
218567
In my case, it's plug &play. I suggest you proceed via My files and tap on the usb drive. Good luck.
580753
yes, but be aware that since the adapter is running Java, it needs the external HD formatted to FAT32. If the external drive uses NTFS, the adapter will tell you it needs formatting because it can't read it. This has max-size implications too.
1302300
Depends on what devise you have plugged in. A usb stick should work without the power cable, external drives would not.
15559
Sorry, I have not tried that. I got this unit to use with my phone but it should be able to handle reading the external drive
614590
No, you will have to get a separate reader that hooks up via usb. Hope this helps.
2020844
Not sure, depends on your source USB port. To be sure, I would purchase a "powered" USB hub to connect your drives.
393463
Yes, it only provides access to the drive via USB.You will need separate software for reading different filesystems (e.g. reading a windows hard drive from Mac / Linux) or any other operations you want to perform on the drive.
1090288
Only if you external hard drive has a USB slave connection (the drive acts like a host), if the drive has a compatible, native driver and and user interface to instruct it to copy from the card/reader to the drive. I have not seen an external hard drive yet that can do this. There are standalone hard drive and CD burners with built-in card slots and a LCD screen that can do this.
1577066
Initially it worked great with my Toshiba portable hard drive (Toshiba Canvio Basics Portable Hard Drive 320 GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive) but after about two weeks, for some reason I started getting errors when I plugged my hard drive into to it. It has worked fine for other devices though - speakers, my wired keyboard, mouse. And it has no problem reading my smaller flash drives. My 8G Sandisk flash drive works fine when plugged in directly. Hope that helps a little. Thanks-
1555909
I tried to plug in an external 320GB hard drive and it didn't work at all. The enclosure had its own power supply and I have plugged it into other USB Hubs before, but this one didn't even recognize it. don't know if it was defective or a limitation of the design, but I am returning it considering that I bought this Hub to swap multiple external hard drives and thumb drives. Hope this helps.
2035415
No, unfortunately not. An external drive is pretty cheap. I bought one when I bought the computer.
2186462
Yes, as long as (obviously) your hard drive can physically connect to it.One thing I have found about this device is that if you USB-connect it to a machine, and then connect a hard drive to it, sometimes that machine won't see the drive. But then you plug the USB end in to a different machine, and that machine *will* see the drive. I haven't done this enough to know the pattern to it, but I', just advising to not give-up if the drive can't be seen by a machine...go try another machine.
1171130
yes if the tablet or whatever it is that you are trying to "read" on, has the software that supports the data on the drive.