Wanted to ask those who already have their tablet and dock whether you can plug a USB external HDD (without its own power) into the USB port and use it, or whether external HDD need to have their own power supply? Does the USB port on the dock provide enough power to external HDD?
yes, I've got a 500GB passport and it works great, I stor my movies on it and had no problem playing directly from the hard drive
sapiers said:
yes, I've got a 500GB passport and it works great, I stor my movies on it and had no problem playing directly from the hard drive
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Thats brilliant news as I have a passport drive as well....just waiting for my dock now.
and it can read and write to ntfs formatted drives. so no 4gb limit.
yep..my western digital portable works perfect on TF.. not sure about those requires additional powers..but it makes sense they should work well too
sweet, i was worried that the dock wouldn't provide enough power to my passport. Man i love those little drives
I've got a simpletech 160GB formatted NTFS and can't find it on the USB port. Any help?
Thanks.
I was able to get my Seagate Freeagent GO drive to work perfectly through the keyboard dock. In fact, I had an SD card, USB mouse and external HD all going at the same time
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What would be the difference between a 3.0 usb drive and a 2.0 usb drive? I think the usb ports on the TF are 3.0. TIA - sheureka
interesing.. I can power the drive fine (which is more than I can do from some of the usb ports on my desktop ).
usb 3 seems to have more connections and more power... i noticed that the ps for the tf is 15v vs 5v for standard usb.. I don't know about speed differences though. there are some threads on blown ps's with extension cables too so there is something specific here.
so. i think it's great that the usb here can power a hdd!
Its running usb 2.0
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Need to be careful. Many people are using USB connectors to do things that are very different than spec. Bottom line a physical USB connector may not have USB signals & power on it.
I think it's the drive as it runs fine on my computer, reformatted it NTFS, and even with plugged into both usb ports it still doesn't read in the TF.
USB powers it, tried usb mouse okay, sd card in kb is fine too.
I don't have a problem getting another hdd (maybe one listed here as working).
any other thoughts appreciated.
I am having a similar problem with a WD 500GB and an Oyen esata/USB 2.0 enclosure. Drive works fine on powered USB 2.0 port on my laptop, but not on the Transformer. The drive powers on, the Removable Storage notification flashes, but the drive is not recognized.
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What would be the difference between a 3.0 usb drive and a 2.0 usb drive? I think the usb ports on the TF are 3.0. TIA - sheureka
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Speed and power required. USB 3 is a lot faster.
USB 2.0 ~60MB/sec
USB 3.0 up to 640MB/sec
Prime 1.5 solved the problem. Apparently some custom kernels cannot handle NTFS.
my transformer would freeze if I tried plugging in a drive with multiple partitions, not sure how many partitions it supports formatted the drive to one partition and all is well
I have a Maxtor 3200 Personal storage 500GB with own power supply and it works.
I also have a Seagate 1TB Expansion Portable drive USB2.0 powered and this also works.
Powers up hdd but no recognition
TF101 3.2.1 Build HTK7.US_epad-8.6.5.13 stock
I am having similar issues as Adam. I have a 1TB Buffalo Ministation. My win vista pc also didn't see it initially... had to download the driver. Then I formatted it with a 32GB FAT32 partition and did the rest NTFS. My dvd player couldn't see the NTFS so I tried it to exFAT. Took all night, and still no compatibility (had to try). So now I formatted it back to NTFS. The transformer hasn't been able to recognize it in any formatted format. Not even the FAT32 bit. But it does power it nicely.
Hope someone has a trick up their sleeve, this little hdd is so portable!
SOLVED! I plugged it in on the other side (which is the left side of the dock) and VOILA! I have NTFS and the partitioned FAT32 access. How nice Now to figure out if I can somehow use it without the dock.....
I have a 2.5" 750gb Seagate Momentus HDD and a 2.5" 120gb OCZ Vertex 3 SSD both can be powered just fine by the TF. Using the Vertex 3 drive uses less power than my Seagate Momentus because there are no moving parts so I prefer it.
Incidentally, the TF uses USB 2.0 ports, not 3.0. You can use a USB 3.0 cable as it is backward compatible to 2.0. My Vertex 3 has a USB 3.0 type interface on the external enclosure it's housed in but it kicks back to 2.0 speeds while plugged into the TF which is more than enough while watching movies from it.
I am considering the Transformer over the Acer A500 mainly because of the display. However, I do enjoy the sd card and usb ports on the acer.
I am confused with the Asus ports. Since I am not interested in the dock, I was wondering if the asus has usb and micros sd ports on the tablet without needing the dock.
If not, I may just end up keeping the acer. However, do you know of other additional features of the transformer over the acer? (besides the dock)
Thanks!
JT
THe tablet only has a microSD card on the tablet itself
the dock has the 2 usb ports, and full size SD card
Yea the TF tablet itself doesn't have the USB ports. It just has the SD Card slot
It has MicroSD and mini HDMI but no USB, I don't know for certain but it looks like Asus will be producing a desk dock (not keyboard), maybe it'll have a USB port .... that's pure speculation on my part.
Asus will be releasing a USB accessory that plugs into the data port on the tablet......
http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/27/here-are-the-official-asus-transformer-accessories-and-add-ons/
I was wondering if anyone know of a tablet similar in price and specs of the Asus Transformer but with the USB host ability on the tablet without a dock?
Acer iconia with full sized USB
I can confirm that the Acer Iconia Tab has had USB host (via a full sized USB port) since release day. Visit your local Best Buy for a demo. Bring a fat32 formatted usb stick.
Here the next press release for the ASUS Transformer. This will definetely attract a some people to this wonderful tablet:
http://androidcommunity.com/asus-eee-pad-transformer-with-android-3-1-supports-xbox-360-and-ps3-controllers-for-gaming-20110531/
What is the wire hooked into? the USB port on the keyboard?
If it's to the USB on the keyboard, I wonder if this would work if you tried to connect this to the MicroSD slot: MicroSD to USB adapter
it wont work with that SD to USB adapter as the micro SD drivers are expecting memory, not a data stream from a controller (note it is for connecting a storage device through microsd nothing more).
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Hello. I have a TF101 B60 model. It fails booting to recovery. I can not get it to talk to my WIN7, Mint15, WINXP PCs via USB. It does not get recognized by any. I replaced the USB connector, but that did not help. However; I purchased an ASUS USB adapter that plugs into the tablet and has a full size USB port. I can connect a USB thumb drive, serial port adapter and lan adapter to this USB adapter and the tablet will recognize all of them and work flawlessly. This is the part that confuses me. I have three cables. The original and two I got from ebay. None of these cable work connecting to a PC with Linux or WINDOWS. I can not boot into APX mode. I have spent hours looking a posts and most are fixed by replacing the cable. I have to believe the USB part works because of the adapter works with USB devices.
Any ideas on fixing this or on how to flash a new ROM. I am at .27 now. I can't root or flash withour USB?! I have not seen this as successful even using adb. You still need a rooted tablet. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Pete
ASUS TF101
2x NEXUS 7
NOOK HD+ with CM 10.2
Unfortunately, if you cannot connect using the USB charging cable you will not be able to root. Many of us have tried to find a way to root using the tablet itself. It is not possible.
The USB host adapter may be using different pins than the actual USB charging cable so there could be a bad pin in the tablet connector that is causing an issue with the USB SLAVE when connecting to a PC. Not sure the best way to diagnose this other than try your cable with another Transformer (could be TF201, 300, 700 or 701) to see if it is recognized by your PC and cable.