Any external HDDs compatible with Tablet 2?

Hello everyone,
Lenovo Solution Center is reporting that the 64 GB of storage in my tablet 2 is running out, and I would like to connect an external hard drive to it and move some programs and files to the hard drive to free up space in my tablet.
Someone else had a similar problem and was suggested that they use a micro SD card, but I don't have any that has enough space to fit my apps. And I'm not sure if some intense desktop programs such as Microsoft Office will be able to run off a removable micro SD card.
Any compatible devices you might be aware about - perhaps the new Thinkpad Stack system announced at CES?
Thanks,
Student Thinker

Why not just plug an $8 16 GB thumbdrive into your dock? I have a hard drive hooked to my dock but I still use thumbdrives for many things, for instance I can get it to boot to my Macrium restore thumbdrive from the dock and reload a backup image. It's also faster to write large files to a thumbdrive and transfer them to another computer than it is to do it over WiFi. I also have a 32Gb micro SD drive and pointed the Windows Libraries ( Documents, Music, Photos, and Video)  to that drive just like I do on my machines that have a SS hardrive .... Point your TEMP folders to that also and that will free up some space and make the onboard storage more responsive since it doesn't have to constantly erase a block (Or wait for the OS to send a TRIM command) before it writes new information to that block. Fortunately Windows does do a real good job using SD cards like a hard drive unlike Android devices that usually bork the SD card when you need it most and the only solution is a full reformatting. That's why the Google Nexus 7's and the Nexus 10 don't even have a built in SD card slot
You have to understand how solid state storage works and it';s different from a hard drive which can overwrite information while with solid state storage it has to erase a used block before it can write to it again and erasing a block is one of the slowest operations a soilid state drive does. Because of the need to erase a used block before a write you will start to get a noticable slowdown at 75-80% full and by 90% it will be unresponsive and often unusable and crash the system especially if you are doing something that writes a lot of files back and forth to storage. That's why these devices generally suck for large file size photo video or sound editing

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