SAMSUNG LED TV and USB/HDD

[chocostain]

I have a Series 4 SAMSUNG LED TV.

I am able to play movies (SD or HD) by directly plugging in a storage device on it's USB port.

For convenience and to avoid wear and tear to the TV's USB Port, I am using a USB extender so that I will just plug in a USB on the extender instead of having to pull it in and out of the TV's port.

So far, I was able to plug and play USB sticks (8GB at most since this is what I have).

However, if I am using an external hard drive (WD 500GB elements, for example), my TV will not respond or read the hard drive via the USB extender. I have to directly plug it in to the TV.

Why is this?

Is there a work around you can suggest so that I can just keep using the USB extender if I plug in the Hard Drive? I really hate having to unplug the wires at the back of the TV every after use. I'm afraid one day it will loosen the USB port of the TV.

 

[chocostain]

Anyone has an idea?

 

[hang-the-9]

Signal degrades over the extneder, especially if the USB is port powered. You can try using the drive with an external power supply if it has an option for that.

A simple solution is just leave the drive plugged in unless you want to add something to it.