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USB-attached hard drives, USB thumb drive and SC cards are generally accessible if they:
1. Use a standard format like NTFS or FAT32, and <-- This would apply to Windows drives
2. Do not require any software installation (driver, security, versioning) in order to operate. <-- Should apply to USB drives
Network-attached drives are NOT available at this time. The developers have this in their queue but this capability requires the completion of multiple projects. There is no estimated date of completion and it will probably not be soon.
Pictures, music and other files that are on a phone or tablet are accessible IF the phone or tablet can be made to appear as a USB hard disk. Technically this means that the device uses the MSC (Mass Storage Class) protocol.
Phones and tablets that only use the PTP (Picture Transsfer Protocol) and/or MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) cannont be accessed directly through a USB connection.
Files on an Android phone can be accessed over WiFi using Airdroid. Files on both Android and iOS devices can be transferred to Google Drive by installing the Drive app. From Drive the files can be accessed by the Chromebook.
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