External harddrive..

[JJJ78]

Hi, 

I have a Samsung S21 Ultra, and a broken laptop! I have been using a WD External Hardrive for my photos that i transfer, so my phone isnt crammed with massive sized photos.

Anyway, is it possible to use my WD external hardrive with my phone? I read that i may be able to with an OTG Adaptor..?

Any advice is appreciated!

[CryptoAxis · Accepted solution]

I just tried to connect my Seagate hard drive to my phone. I can open it directly with samsung file manager, but it is read-only since the disk is in NTFS format.

I've also browsed youtube to see some solutions but they seem pretty weird.

I recommend you to get a laptop some time if this is not urgent so that nothing get corrupted.

You can also have to try to connect it to your phone with a type c adapter to see if it works.😁

[VueeyLe · Accepted solution]

It is possible to transfer and read/write to external drives if it's formatted in ExFAT.

I do this all the time with my Samsung T SSD's and other HDD.

If your HDD is using a USB-A port, you can buy USB-C to USB-A adapters from Harvey Norman/JB or eBay 🙂

[RS_AUS]

If you also use OneDrive for gallery sync there is a OneDrive option called Free up phone space or something like that.

I believe it will keep the photos in OneDrive but not on the phone and each time you try to open one it will need to download it first.