Hi Guys, Just bought Maxtor back up hard drive external, It plugs in to the PC via USB. What I want to know can I plug it in directly to my blueray home cinema player via its USB socket? At the moment I use the 32Gig USB storage stick. Thanks JabbaShort answer is NO.
Long answer:
without more details about your blue Ray player, it is hard to give a precise answer. Also, it helps if you include the current specifications of your computer and operating SYSTEM even though you have been here before.
Normally you would use your blue Ray player as a way to read discs you have created. I suppose your blue Ray player is not a recording device, it is only a reading device.
The preferred way to make a backup is to SAVE your system, programs and data to an external hard disk drive using the USB port.
You can also save the contents of your computer by doing backups onto Blu-ray It may take several this to back up. The advantage is you have a permanent and low-cost backup system that can be stored in a very small area on your shelf.
Please provide some more details of what you intend. It sounded like you intended to use your blue Ray player and your external hard disk drive together without the use of the computer. Normally Blu-ray players are not intended to be universal backup devices for personal computers. That is, they do not automatically perform the task that you want them to do. The blue Ray player is the peripheral device, which means it needs something else to make it do additional things.
Does that help any?I doubt very much, geek, that the OP is asking the question that you answered "NO" to. I have a Blu-ray player with a USB socket and I can plug in to that a pen drive/memory stick and play back material stored on it, and I can also plug in an external USB hard drive and do the same. Some models only support hard DRIVES formatted FAT, FAT32, other support NTFS as well and even ISO files. We will not go into where ISO, MKV, avi etc video files come from! I would say to the OP, read the manual, plug it in and see what happens. If the hard drive has its own power source, all the better. The USB socket on the Blu-ray player may not be capable of powering a hard drive, and could be damaged by one that expects to take its power via USB. Again, read the manual!
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Thank you y for the correction.