Is there a way to connect an external hard drive to the iPad 2?

I have a lot of music and movies stored on an external hard drive and want to know if there is a way to get it onto my iPad?

Connect the drive to your computer, add them to ITunes and sync to the iPad.
If you do not want them to copy to your internal drive, iTunes prefs > Advanced.
Uncheck Copy to ITunes media folder when adding to library.

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