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[Q] I just ordered a Acasis USB Dual External Drive Enclosure w/USB Hub

I just ordered a Acasis USB Dual External Drive Enclosure w/USB Hub - Supports 5.25" Slim SATA Optical Drive & 2.5" SATA HDD up to 640GB; http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BLK-ODD-SATA-PB&cat=DVD
I have another purpose for it to be used with my laptop, but I am wondering if this might work with the Galaxy SII ?? The hard drive might but don't know and the DVD part will need software, maybe VLC might have a try with it? This could all be moot... might not have a chance to work at all but I thought it might be interesting? What do you think.

This can be used as an external hard drive with an s2?

Depending on your rom/kernel combo you can get a USB otg cable/dongle and plug flash drives, external hard drives, mice and keyboards into your phone and use them just fine.
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Update!
Galaxy-Shadow said:
I just ordered a Acasis USB Dual External Drive Enclosure w/USB Hub - Supports 5.25" Slim SATA Optical Drive & 2.5" SATA HDD up to 640GB; http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BLK-ODD-SATA-PB&cat=DVD
I have another purpose for it to be used with my laptop, but I am wondering if this might work with the Galaxy SII ?? The hard drive might but don't know and the DVD part will need software, maybe VLC might have a try with it? This could all be moot... might not have a chance to work at all but I thought it might be interesting? What do you think.
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Well to my surprise The Galaxy S2 will read the 160Gb hard drive and the CD portion of the optical Drive!, it is an LG CDR Sata Drive, it won't read my Sony DVD Sata drive, but at least I can burn CD-R's with my phone! that I was not expecting!, as I get more time I will experiment with other uses for this.:good:

external usb hard drive options

i picked up a random brand android tv box running android 4.2 and im looking for a external large capacity usb storage option. 1 or 2 TB would be nice. Any recommendations on brands that usually work? i dont want to stream wirelessly. needs to connect physically.
thanks!

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Portable-External-Drive-Storage/dp/B006Y5UV4A

External Hard Drive
Username invalid said:
http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Portable-External-Drive-Storage/dp/B006Y5UV4A
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Western Digital is pretty good. I had a 1TB SeaGate crash/fail and lose everything before :crying:, hopefully they have updated the hardware on their products.

LoL
I Have External Seagate 5 Years Old
and never Brick
Seagate Drive need Stable Electric ...
Also ... don't use bad Connector Cable ... that will brick your Drive when the Electric unstable
I suggess Seagate Free Agent Go
or
Seagate Free Agent Go-Flex

Anyone tried using the Corsair Voyager USB stick with Stick Mount?

I've tried FAT 32 and exFAT - regardless, the drive shows up on my Nexus 7 with "Other" taking up like 26gb. If I connect the same drive to my S3 or to my PC, it's fine. I also have something I got from Kickstarter that lets me connect microsd cards using a usb adapter and that seems to work with Nexus. Not sure why the Corsair won't work though

I have the 64gb USB 3.0 flash drive on my keychain, and it works perfectly on my Nexus 7 running Pac-Man
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Biggest Flash drive?

I have the Samsung galaxy tab s 10.5 and I would like to know if a 256g flash drive will work? I watch movies and TV shows on the go, 64g is not enough (the Simpsons season 1 - 25 needs about 100g) I don't have a computer anymore just my tablet. I bought the seagate wireless plus 1tb and I couldn't get it to work, don't want to order a 256g flash drive and have same trouble. Any help would be great
Sorry no I am not rooted and due to the fact that I use my Samsung allshare cast hub daily and root items can't use the hub

Anyone?

Don't you mean SD card.? Some people say the highest you can go is 64 or 128gb

128 GB is the highest you can go
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He probably means OTG cable with a hard drive. Simple drives tend to work the larger drives need more power to work via USB.
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There is an available of cable that's a "y".....one leg is the USB and the other is another female micro USB for your charging cable. Can't remember where on ebay I got mine but it does work for my external hard drives with my GS5

128gb sd card is not big enough so I thought k would try a 256gb OTG flash drive. Has anyone tested?

Guntert said:
128gb sd card is not big enough so I thought k would try a 256gb OTG flash drive. Has anyone tested?
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This question left me extremely curious, so I have just purchased an OTG cable which will arrive in a few days. I will test out a few different EXT HDD sizes and post what the maximum my OTG will allow.
I do however forsee an increase in the discharge of the battery for larger storage devices, but we shall see.

Can't wait to see what u find

I'm gonna buy a sandisk ultra 64gb microUSB otg and I was looking for a bigger one but this must be the biggest one they have, can't wait to test it out. What I'll do is if my shows or movies won't fit I'm gonna have to erase the ones I've seen then try to make them fit. I suggest you get a 128gb micro SD card plus a big sized flash drive then you should be okay.
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So I bought an OTG cable off ebay, and it arrived. I didn't change the format of any of my external drives as I don't have the space to store anything currently anywhere else. The tablet registers there is a drive connected however it can't mount the storage device due to an unknown format. The externals I tried were 2 portables (1x 500Gb usb2.0 and 1x 1Tb usb 3.0) and 2 desktops (1x 1.5Tb and 1x 1Tb both usb 2.0). Over the next few days I will attempt to reformat the 500 Gb and 1Tb portables, and the 1Tb desktop and see if that produces any results. Due to work constraints this may take a few days, so thank you for patience. Results will be posted as soon as possible. Current format of all the externals is default NTFS.

Another Option
There's another option in which would require multiple devices unfortunately due to the limited storage. Its a product I currently use myself called "Toshiba Duo 2 in 1.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/...flash-drive-toduo64grd?searchTerm=Toshina Duo
Unfortunately I am still working on my other drives. There's is a lot of moving data around (limited to USB 2.0 speeds), so please keep posted on my other externals.

Exteneral USB M2 Sata Supported but not MSata?

I was able to get an M2 Sata Adapter to work and a new WD 1TB external drive but an Msata and an older 500gb WD will not... Ideas? - Drives are able to be seen on PC.

XE-Cherokee said:
I was able to get an M2 Sata Adapter to work and a new WD 1TB external drive but an Msata and an older 500gb WD will not... Ideas? - Drives are able to be seen on PC.
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It's the power requirements of those adapters. Powered USB hub should work. Same reason my stock work dell kb works but not my Logitech g910. But with a powered hub it works fine.

Okay, that's what I was leaning towards. Older devices having higher power requirements. Any knowledge or recommendations of portable powered usb hubs?

XE-Cherokee said:
Okay, that's what I was leaning towards. Older devices having higher power requirements. Any knowledge or recommendations of portable powered usb hubs?
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Not really. Anything with a quality name behind it.

bignazpwns said:
Not really. Anything with a quality name behind it.
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Okay so far I have been able to get the M2sata drive, 500gb WD USB Drive, and the 1 TB WD USB Drive to work on my Z2 Force just not he USB Msata Drive.
However the Msata Drive works on a Galaxy S7 and My PC just fine. Thoughts?