This cable works perfectly BUT ....... Your HDD should be formatted in FAT32 and not NTSF Otherwise, do not plan on connecting your usual DD, one on which you store a whole lot of things and you walk everywhere, because to interact via this cable must be reformatted HDD (FAT32) So think about it! This cable is of course useless if you go through the computer to store your movies. Personally I have a 500GB drive, made a 50 GB FAT32 partition to temporarily store movies and 450 GB remaining in NTSF not to be limited to the size of files to store.