Need help to choose the 1st hard drive

[Anonymous]

Hello, guys. I’m a fresh enough here, not only in this forum but in tech questions, too. Want to purchase a hard drive for my tablet, because don’t have any free memory on it at all.
the main points which i think is important are:
– portability;
– OS Compatibility: windows and mac os ( i don’t have mac, but to dream is not harmful…);
– and the last is durability. I’ve heard and read a lot of reviews that hard drives can work good, but at one day they just stop working without any reason.

After reading dozens of reviews, such as http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/portable-hdd-stor..,2561.html?_ga=1.161600764.1759872035.1466691305 and http://www.bestadvisor.com/portable-hard-drives , I decided to choose Seagate.
Have some questions and hope you’ll help me.
1) Can I use this for XBox one?
2) How many rpms is this drive? 7200, 5400?
3) What about its warranty?

Or maybe you can recommend any other good model? anyway, any help and advice will be pretty appreciated, thanks in advance.

[Nono]

I read your post multiple times and I’m not sure what you are asking.
It seems you want to increase storage space on your tablet and decided to get an external USB hard drive.

Honestly, depending on your tablet and usage, this may not be the best solution.
Lots of tablets include a MicroSD card slot. This should be the first solution to increase storage. This is both cheap and discreet.

Not all tablets have a full USB port and/or support USB OTG (acting as USB master, allowing to plug peripherals).

If you want to know what portable HDD to buy, follow any of the recommendations found online. Here is another website whose recommendations have been pretty good so far:

The Best Portable Hard Drive

1. About xbox compatibility,  any usb storage recognized as “Mass Storage device” (that is, most if not all) should work.
2. RPM will depend on the product you buy, but most portable USB HDD are 5400 rpm, as random access are typically non-critical.
3. For warranty, this will depend where in the world you are and your reseller.

I would personally NOT go for a USB HDD to extend a tablet storage. My preferences would be:

1. SD/microSD card (if the tablet supports it)
2. small usb flash drive ( https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-128GB-SDCZ43-128G-G46-Version/dp/B00YFI1EBC )
3. wireless HDD storage ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178321 )

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