Absolutely you can. I suggest getting a nice network hard drive that you can connect using Ethernet. There are tons on amazon. They will overcome the USB speed limitation that the above gentlemen is referring to.
according to the specs, it has a USB 2.0 port that can read a connected hard drive to stream media and such, so yeah probably. It probably will be a bit sluggish given the USB 2.0 limitation of 12MB/s
Absolutely you can. I suggest getting a nice network hard drive that you can connect using Ethernet. There are tons on amazon. They will overcome the USB speed limitation that the above gentlemen is referring to.