That little USB thing mounted on the square board is an adaptor, not a storage device. Any device that uses USB can connect through it... such as usb keyboard and mouce for linux. Or a usb memory stick for flashing a bios to the mod chip. All this little thing does is rearrange wires so you can conveniently connect usb devices. A usb hard drive should work, but i have not tried it. If linux can run it, then chances are it will work through the USB adaptor.