I recently Purchased the Asus USB Kit and awaiting its arrival. I would like to use a Spare 64 GB External SSD with my TF300. Has anyone on the Forum used an External SSD with Success ?
Izzyb914 said:
I recently Purchased the Asus USB Kit and awaiting its arrival. I would like to use a Spare 64 GB External SSD with my TF300. Has anyone on the Forum used an External SSD with Success ?
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Yes
external ssd
external usb 2.5 inch 100g drive (fat32, and ntfs)
external usb 2.5 inch 500g drive (fat32, and ntfs)
external usb 3.5 inch 80g drive (fat32, and ntfs)
usb to wifi dongle for external mouse and keyboard
that's all I have tried so far
btw the external 2.5s were not externally powered but the 3.5 was
Good Luck!
tobdaryl said:
Yes
external ssd
external usb 2.5 inch 100g drive (fat32, and ntfs)
external usb 2.5 inch 500g drive (fat32, and ntfs)
external usb 3.5 inch 80g drive (fat32, and ntfs)
usb to wifi dongle for external mouse and keyboard
that's all I have tried so far
btw the external 2.5s were not externally powered but the 3.5 was
Good Luck!
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tobdaryl Thanks for your reply. I received my USB Kit yesterday and attached it to my SSD and it Works Great. Super Fast! Not 1 Hiccup Playing Movies. I will use this Set Up with the SSD to store my Movies On for use with Play Back with HDMI.
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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.
sheureka said:
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.
is it possible to connect a hard drive to the dock
i have a 250gb WD hard drive
and how
thanks in advance
daniel9522 said:
is it possible to connect a hard drive to the dock
i have a 250gb WD hard drive
and how
thanks in advance
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Goto youtube and search Asus Transformer - USB, Wireless Mouse, SD Card, External HD
I'm using the Logitech M570 wireless trackball. As far as external HD, I was able to insert a usb flash drive and it recognized it right away.
I tested my TF with a 500 GB portable HD (Western Digital) today, and it worked flawlessly. I was initially unsure if the tablet would be able to power the HD, but no probs on that count.
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daniel9522 said:
is it possible to connect a hard drive to the dock
i have a 250gb WD hard drive
and how
thanks in advance
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Yes, just plug it in and it should be detected without any problem. I have a 500GB 2 1/2 inch external drive with a single usb lead which provides power and data and it worked first time and works great for viewing larger hd movies that would be impractical to store on microsd.
Im assuming you mean an external Hard Drive or do you just have an internal drive you want to connect?
Mark.
it recognized for like half a second
daniel9522 said:
it recognized for like half a second
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What type of external HardDrive are you trying to connect (2.5inch or 3.5inch)?
Which file system is it formatted with?
Mark.
daniel9522 said:
it recognized for like half a second
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If your form factor is 2.5 inch then you power it by the USB
If it's a 3.5 you'll have to power it externally via it's supplied power cable
I use a Seagate 1tb 2.5 and it doesn't matter if i format to HTFS or FAT32 it all works good
My micro SD cards are only recognised if formated to FAT32
daniel9522 said:
is it possible to connect a hard drive to the dock
i have a 250gb WD hard drive
and how
thanks in advance
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Lots of posts on success doing this. search>
unable to format HTFS or FAT32
only ntfs
daniel9522 said:
unable to format HTFS or FAT32
only ntfs
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Why are you unable to format to Fat32?
Mark.
i tried something else and now i can format ntfs and exfat
but ex fat also wont read on the tf
thanks for all the help
i install] Netformer...eating all the pies, Testing: 1.5
and formatted my hdd to ntfs
and it is opening up on my TF
Hello, Is it possible to connect the WD external HD( external power source) to the usb on the screen part of the tablet. Thank you
braudia said:
Hello, Is it possible to connect the WD external HD( external power source) to the usb on the screen part of the tablet. Thank you
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Try it and see
Mark.
Im just hoping to get a usb adapto an be able to connect a hd directly to my tablet...
For movies in the road
I can get my dog to walk on his hind legs. It's amusing but has no practical purpose, such as you are suggesting.
Paper that comes with USB adapter states 'flash memory up to 32gb formatted fat32' not tried anything else yet...
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Hello guys ,
I just got a usb hub which worked pefectly with mouse and flash drives but when it tried to use and external hdd its said high power usb drive question is my usb hub got a solt for external adabter which voltage I should use if I want to power up an hdd ?
zonefull said:
Hello guys ,
I just got a usb hub which worked pefectly with mouse and flash drives but when it tried to use and external hdd its said high power usb drive question is my usb hub got a solt for external adabter which voltage I should use if I want to power up an hdd ?
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It should be 5 v dc i believe at 1000ma.
Apparently someone have had success with a 128gb HDD... No external power needed...
waiting for a case then will try with my new 128gb SSD...
I am considering buying an Otg pen drive to expand capacity as well as keeping some important wip data off device, but want to know if anybody has tried them in 32 or 64 Gig capacities and how is their form factor as don't want it sticking like sore thumb that could likely damage the USB port. A unit with micro USB on side would likely be better suited, if anyone came across a model that kind?
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I am considering buying an Otg pen drive to expand capacity as well as keeping some important wip data off device, but want to know if anybody has tried them in 32 or 64 Gig capacities and how is their form factor as don't want it sticking like sore thumb that could likely damage the USB port. A unit with micro USB on side would likely be better suited, if anyone came across a model that kind?
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I am using 3 USB thumg drives. 128 GB and 64GB. SandDisk and Kingston they work with no problems.
Also Meenova MiniMicroSD card reader with 64GB micro SD that works without the OTG dongle.
All work fine.
Shofar1 said:
I am using 3 USB thumg drives. 128 GB and 64GB. SandDisk and Kingston they work with no problems.
Also Meenova MiniMicroSD card reader with 64GB micro SD that works without the OTG dongle.
All work fine.
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Thanks,
Do your thumb drives have internal OTG /,MicroUsb (as i don't want to use a dongle cable).
Just Might as well get that Card Reader anyways as that opens up a lot of possibilities.
Thumb drives require dongle.
Meenova goes direct but as for now only 64GB.
I have used external hard drive before with my note 3 but it's only 150GB. Now with S6 having no expandable SD card, I'm thinking I'd keep an external hard drive handy. I know it supports USB OTG on the get go but can I it run 1 TB HDD without extra power source? I think this is better than buying a 64 GB model with the same price of 32 GB model and 1TB HDD.
or do you think I should go with the 64 GB model?
KristianKenneth said:
I have used external hard drive before with my note 3 but it's only 150GB. Now with S6 having no expandable SD card, I'm thinking I'd keep an external hard drive handy. I know it supports USB OTG on the get go but can I it run 1 TB HDD without extra power source? I think this is better than buying a 64 GB model with the same price of 32 GB model and 1TB HDD.
or do you think I should go with the 64 GB model?
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Did you have 1TB of storage on your previous phone with SD? If not, why do you need the hassle now? Why not get a MicroSD adapter that is a fewe $ and still use your MicroSD?
To naswer your wuestion - it will not handle a device with that much power draw.
Szadzik said:
Did you have 1TB of storage on your previous phone with SD? If not, why do you need the hassle now? Why not get a MicroSD adapter that is a fewe $ and still use your MicroSD?
To naswer your wuestion - it will not handle a device with that much power draw.
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Because my macbook storage is almost full so I find the need of using an external HDD. Do you have any idea what maximum storage GS6 can handle via USB OTG?
KristianKenneth said:
Because my macbook storage is almost full so I find the need of using an external HDD. Do you have any idea what maximum storage GS6 can handle via USB OTG?
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Hard to say, but I would first start with upgrading your Macbooks drive instead of looking at solutions like connecting a 1TB drive to a phone.
An extreme solution would be to get get proper cables and use a powerbank to power the drive and have it working on the phone, still.
KristianKenneth said:
Because my macbook storage is almost full so I find the need of using an external HDD. Do you have any idea what maximum storage GS6 can handle via USB OTG?
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It's not the size drive that's the issue, its the type of drive you connect. A flash drive is one thing, bit don't think about hooking up a 2.5" mechanical external hard drive. Even if it worked, your battery would die in no time.
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Let me break it down.
Note 3 USB OTG output current: 900mA
Note 2 USB OTG output current: 500mA
Note 4 USB OTG output current: 600mA
S4 USB OTG output current: 500mA
HTC m7 USB OTG output current: 300mA
HTC m8 USB OTG output current: 500mA
So, maybe, maybe not. Note 3 can run every drive I've tried except the power hungry 4TB Seagate Backup Plus Fast.
If you want to measure your drive and find out the current draw, just buy the inexpensive CHARGER Doctor.
Also, the S6 will probably have 600mA output, so it most likely can handle some drives, but you'll need to measure to be sure. I'll be testing an S6 soon to verify output current.