Now, all smartphones don’t have USB OTG (On The Go) capability, a feature that allows you to access an external USB hard drive on a smartphone by plugging into it. As such, people might want to access media content from an external hard drive on their smartphones, to serve as expandable memory. Some smartphones ship with limited internal storage, with no SD card support. Of course, one way would be to connect the external hard drive to each of the individual computers and manually copy the required items, but surely it’s not the most feasible way, is it?Īlso, as more smartphones come with bigger screen sizes, watching videos and movies on smartphones has become quite a trend. For instance, let’s say your portable USB hard drive contains a number of different types of files, each of which need to be accessed by multiple people in the room. Each person may simultaneously want to interact with different files on the same hard drive.
But sometimes you might be required to share the data on your external hard drive with multiple devices at the same time. You can access your data at any time by plugging the drive into a computer. Portable USB hard disks make it easier to carry terabytes of data on the go.
