Hi everyone,
Firstly, I did search here and on Google for my particular scenario, and I haven't had a lot of luck. There's bits and pieces here and there, but nothing I could find that addressed everything all at once. So I'm here to explain my scenario and hopefully get some advice from you fine folks.
I'm trying to deploy some Windows 8 tablets throughout a small business. The size and functionality of the Dell Venue 8 Pro checks so many boxes so hard, that I really do want to utilize it. Especially pricing and size! Due to the storage capacity of pretty much ANY tablet not being able to hold all the data we would need, we use external hard drives. Ideally, a server would be used for this, but there are intermittent connections and different sites. The best solution, we have found, is an external hard drive that plugs into notebooks. Since we want to deploy tablets for ease of use and size, we need a tablet that can power up an external hard drive and use it at the same time. Bonus points for being able to power both the external hard drive and the tablet itself. Is there a combination of cables that would permit us to do this? If more information is needed to answer this question, I'll gladly provide it. Thanks for looking!
Firstly, I did search here and on Google for my particular scenario, and I haven't had a lot of luck. There's bits and pieces here and there, but nothing I could find that addressed everything all at once. So I'm here to explain my scenario and hopefully get some advice from you fine folks.
I'm trying to deploy some Windows 8 tablets throughout a small business. The size and functionality of the Dell Venue 8 Pro checks so many boxes so hard, that I really do want to utilize it. Especially pricing and size! Due to the storage capacity of pretty much ANY tablet not being able to hold all the data we would need, we use external hard drives. Ideally, a server would be used for this, but there are intermittent connections and different sites. The best solution, we have found, is an external hard drive that plugs into notebooks. Since we want to deploy tablets for ease of use and size, we need a tablet that can power up an external hard drive and use it at the same time. Bonus points for being able to power both the external hard drive and the tablet itself. Is there a combination of cables that would permit us to do this? If more information is needed to answer this question, I'll gladly provide it. Thanks for looking!