Increase Storage, SAVE Money: iPad External Storage Explained!
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Running an external SSD or flash drive for the iPad isn’t as simple as on a Mac or a PC, and choosing the right option can get… complicated.
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Today we’re diving into a couple different options when it comes to iPad external storage - whether you have an M2 iPad Pro, M1 iPad Air, 10th gen iPad, or another model, most of this material should be translatable. Portable SSDs will probably be the most common options, but flash drive or thumb drive have their place too. If you're look for the best portable SSD for iPad, or best flash drive for iPad, it might be worth giving this a watch.
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0:00 Introduction
1:25 Why Use External Storage on iPad?
2:31 iPad Port Speeds
3:28 Advertised Drive Speeds
4:32 Real World Drive Speeds
4:59 File Transer
6:43 Formatting & Flash Drives
8:34 Battery Life
9:54 Portability, Reliability & Build
11:41 Wrapping Up
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If you are using the Magic Keyboard, you can use that to charge while the port is connected to the external drive.
Great information, Thanks. Recently went on an extended hike in Europe for 2 weeks. Used an Sandisk extreme, with a USBc hub, to backup data from my phone, Insta360, and GPS. I didn't have to worry about filling up the storage of any of the devices. Once I got home was able for use each day's data for video editing.
I was just thinking about getting a iPad and didn’t even know about all of this. This video was so informational yet easy to take and still entertaining
You had me at Billy Ocean. 😊💙 Thank you so much for this video. I've been researching all the things ipad figuring out which accessories would best suit my needs, keeping costs in mind. Your review was short, thorough and exactly what I needed to make an informed decision. Or, it is yet another beginning leading down many more tech rabbit holes. 🙄 Thanks again!
dude this video is absolutely incredible, the information and production quality has been off the charts. The information especially was specifically what I have been searching for.
I’ve recently been using my iPad Pro for more and more tasks during the day. I edit my photo work on it, do quite a bit of video editing on it as well. If I could find something that I could do my pro voice over work on with the iPad I would consider using it for everything I do. It manages most every other aspect of my business.
Thanks for the great information Kyle.
Fabulous video! Thanks for making all this easier to understand! ❤
Moving more and more to iPad only computing. Good to know I can access data on my external drives. Thank you.
I didn’t even know you could hook up an external drive to a tab. Gmail is filled and I don’t want their storage where you pay monthly. Now it seems I can transfer pictures from my Google pictures to an external HD and then delete them from Google.
yes you can. I recently bought a T7 for my PC. But i also use it to move files from my PC to My Tab S7FE to my Ipad air to my mac air. I think i will get one for each
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@@game2572What is the largest file size that you can transfer from your iPad to SSD? Have you ever transferred a 5gb or 10gb video successfully?
Thank you for the great info Kyle. I was wondering how you feel about long term storage on these SSD Drives. I’ve read that they aren’t great stability wise. Any thoughts?
My god! Finally someone explaining storage perfectly. Thank you and subscribing 😊
Yes. I second this. Not many people have been talking about this
I use a 1TB SanDisk Portable Extreme with my M1 Pro, and it's great.
Great video Kyle! I'm on an iPad mini 6 64GB, I don't need extra storage yet but good to know that there are options. I do have an M2 Mac Mini coming in, would love to watch a video on external storage options for the Mac Mini, especially those hubs with additional ports that seem to be very popular nowadays.
Great content and very valuable information. Thumbs up.
Very informative video! Well done and also i really like your use of colors and lights
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this! I got the iexpand drive from SanDisk, and it's okay for backing up photos, but I've been needing a beefier backup, as I do a lot of graphic design work on my ipad. I have been frustrated trying to figure out what drive to get. I thought I would either have to have an ipad-specific hard drive, or reformat one to work. I love knowing I can use one as an extension to both my PC and ipad! This makes things much more clear!
Do you need some app for transferring files to ixpand drive?
Great content, thanks!
Great video! I also appreciate the Billy Ocean reference.
Thanks for the video. Surprised you didn't include the iPad Mini due to its popularity. I do some photo and video editing on my iPad Mini 5. I use a Samsung T7 Portable SSD but have to use an external power pack too and a couple of dongles. I also use the Sandisk iXpand 64GB drive. It has a lightning connector and a USB connector. Hey, it works for me. I have no idea how fast either method is.
Thanks for the info Kyle. I still use thumb drives a lot for what used to be called "sneakernet", like when I want to move a file from my Mac to my wife's Windows PC. It's cheap and simple and the size limitation on emails isn't an issue. I also use exFat since both OSs read and write to it.
Makes sense! That's all you really need for stuff like that.
Great video, noob question if I may: I’ve a Toshiba canvio 2tb and I would like to backup my iPad 6th on it. Does it sound doable, and what kind of adapters should I use if needed?
Outstanding video youngin!👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks Kyle
Do you have a video about the sd card adapters and usb combo hubs?
I have a question about using hard drives on iPads which I’m thinking of doing for storage. How do you save and eject your files safely before ejecting the hard drive?
I bought some water soluble leaf pencils what do you think of those when also you sing colour. Do you recommend using water colour coloured pencils to fill in the colour of the image as well or just to outline? Thank you for the video it was awesome
Thanks for the helpful video! I'm shooting my videos on the ipadpro 2019 but I also use it as a drawing tool as an illuatrator. I was hoping for a reccomendation of a SSD for video editing... Running the files off the drive if that is possible? I use Lumafusion and shoot in 4K. Thanks again! I'll go sift through the rest of your videos for more info. Cheers.
Hey Kyle, great video! - one question: can you work off an external hard drive or will you always have to import files you are working on to your iPad? Could you work on a Procreate file located on your hard drive for instance? Or edit video with footage located on an external hard drive? I consider an iPad Air.
Thanks!
I now only use an iPad Air on a Magic Keyboard. What cable can I get to connect a SanDisk or other external drive to my iPad to transfer photos or audio backing tracks to the external drive? (Thanks so much for your External Storage info!)
I really appreciate all the info, I have a 27 inch iMac 2017 with fusion drive and I’m wondering if if the nvme with enclosure solution applicable to my machine? Appreciate your work, be well.
I have used SanDisk 2 TB drive with my iPad Air with M1 chip now for about 6 months and it is absolutely fantastic. I have gotten a hands on with an Acasis with an iPad Pro and that was a treat. I can say the more and more I gravitate toward the iPad Air becoming my primary driver I am completely blown away by the power and efficiency of these machines.
What storage do u have on Yr air?
@@giliarmson2656 256 GB
Will ssd work with air 4th gen?
I'm looking to buy an Ipad Air m1 with 64gb, to work with video editing. But for that you would have to use an external hard drive like the ones presented. Do you think you can work with the file directly on the external hard drive?
@ Exactly what i was wondering. As i am about to buy a WD 5Tb drive and was wondering if it would work with an ipad air 🤔🤔🤔
Has someone tried it yet?
I do a lot of detailed drawing and animating in procreate and want something that can save my projects that I’m done with or not working on and to save some photos and videos to something reliable that won’t become corrupted or damage the files, any suggestions for what drive I could buy?? Thanks ❤
Would I be able to watch movies directly on my external hare drive from my I-ad air 5th gen if I have it plugged in?
Is it possible to transfer the material from the GoPro memory card to an external drive, omitting the iPad ... directly from the card to the external drive using the iPad as an intermediary
Will these work for an iPad Pro 4th gen or will I need the camera adaptor sold by Apple?
How you transfer photos from I pad to external drive ? please and thank you .
Hey! I use the samsung T7 with my iPad 10th gen and I recommend it. But how do you see the storage like in minute 2:15? Thanks a lot
I need to know if the storage on a ssd drive can be used for my apple tv, to download and watch movies or music.
I'm looking to buy an Ipad Air m1 with 64gb, to work with video editing. But for that you would have to use an external hard drive like the ones presented. Do you think you can work with the file directly on the external hard drive?
Can you suggest the best external ssd for macbook m2
Thank you for the down to earth content! I apologize for going off topic, but I am upgrading my ancient Mac Mini to an M2. I know your Mac Mini is the M1 256 GB version. Assuming I go with the 8GB version , in hind sight, would you recommend any Apple upgrades such as bumping up to 512GB. My purpose is almost exclusively office use, with I believe the most trying task being a steady diet of Google Earth. Thank you again for your efforts.
Does ipad Air 5 support Samsung T7 portable ssd?
Found this useful. I was wondering why all my Ex-FAT storage devices act funny while using on my MacBook and iPhone 15. Sometimes after a transfer, the device looks empty on iPhone. Sometimes files just disappear. It has been very frustrating. Sometimes the device can't be ejected from Mac. But I do want to use it across platforms.. so I'm not too inclined to switch to Apple-only format.
I’m getting mixed information about iPad Pro storage. I’m using a 12.9” gen 3, 1TB model. Is there a limit to an external hard drive capacity with that model? And what’s up with only a single level of file storage? I can use multiple levels of files with thumbdrives but my 5TB SEAGATE backup Plus portable labeled “for Windows and Mac” is not recognized (power light is on & its spinning but it never shows up on the list). It’s connected to an adapter with a USB-C power pass-thru and have tried both ipad only power and with the pass-thru -makes no difference. I have tested the drive on my Win PC and it works just fine. I obviously need advice on how to make this work. Help, please.
13:05
can yiy help me with : how to access a music library stored on an external drive from the music app opened on ipad? Thnx
6:02 , can we edit on davinci resolve on ipad straight off of the external hard drive?
If the sandisk ssd has encryption, will i be able to still access it with the ipad pro 12.9 5th gen?
Any way to eject external devices on Ipad safely? I head some people have had corruption issues at a higher rate in their Ipads compared to other devices
I enjoy the technical level of your videos. My question is what is the software you use for your disk speed tests.
I believe it's called "Disk Test" by Magic Benchmark - I paid $1 for the full version on iPad, tried a couple different ones but this was the best for testing speeds of external drives on the iPad
@@KyleErickson thank you
Which drive do I need to transfer files from windows pc and iPad 10th generation 10.9. 2020
if you run out of internal memory when recording.... will it use the external memory if you have one plugged in?
I have an iPad Pro 12.9 5th. buy a Kingston ssd. In two days it stopped working and when I connected it to a MacBook Pro, it instantly turned off. days later i bought a kingston nvme and orico adapter. It worked for a couple of days and the same thing happened. the iPad doesn't detect it, and the computer shuts down instantly. what am I doing wrong?
What about iPads with lightning ports.
Sorry but I didn't understand.If I plug one of these ssd cards and if I download an app the memory goes into the ssd card?Please answer
Thanks for sharing this information.
I am looking for a common usb drive that can be used on Windows and Ipad but because of the different drive formats I can't use the same drive on both platforms. What would you recommend in this situation?
Get a usb hub
Does it work for apps or just data?
I have a question, so I’m a current CZcamsr. My current iPad has 32GB. I need more storage to edit out my videos. Most of the storage is taken up by apps. If I get a storage unit in your video. Can the videos be posted by using the storage unit? And how would I go about that?
Brother can I use 3.2 usb port with 2.0 type c?
What’s that wallpaper
I format my SSD drives to exFAT because Fat32 is limited to 4GB files size, but on exFat the limit is (I think as big as the disk) I work with 4k drone footage, 4K GoPro footage and insta360 x3 4K video files. I sometimes get files bigger than 4GB, I’ve definitely run into file sized issues, so did a reformat to exfat.
Can I ask what type of drives you use? I was hoping to run a SSD on my Ipad pro. I shoot 4K footage on the Ipad. And I'm running out of space. 😅 I would like to run the video files off the SSD in my video editor. I use Lumafusion. Any pointers would be helpful!
@@warmyellowshade I’m using the Sandisk SSD extreme pro 2TB drive, I’m actually using 3 of those and I’m also using 2 Samsung SSD T5 2TB. But to use multiple drives you’ll need to get a Hub or docking station which is an external unit with multiple ports on it. And the Sandisk is a faster drive which is better if you’re going to access large 4K video footage.
@@teethofthelamb Thanks for the info! I probably don't need to run more than one since I film with the IPad, but that hub option is good to know!
Can this be used for storing games
Can I use sandisk on iPad 10th generation
Hi. Great vid. I’m just wondering, can you use this with ipad pro 2018 model straight out of the box, or do you have to format it first?
Did you solve it
can i install games to external storage and play them?
Does 4tb external ssd work with ipad pro ??
Good
Ya can you get the 64 gb and get that external ssd drive and boot everything from the iPad from the external ssd card ???anyone have any luck with that set up
This is the first video in my yt history in which I am slowing down the speed of video .
Airport ha! 😂. Super helpful vid! Thank you
Thanks for watching!
@@KyleErickson Of course! Keep up the great work 👍🏽. I subbed for more!
Can't seem to find the blackmagic disk speed test for an ipad. :(
How to encrypt and decrypt external drive with iPad?
I got Sandisk SSD 1 TB and when I plug it into my iPad pro m2, it doesn't pop up in files. Any solutions?
Great video as always! I would like to ask you for advice. I have two Hard Disks (formatted in exFat) that I normally use on a PC. I tried to connect them via the Hub to the iPad (Air m1) but they turn on without the iPad recognizing them. How could I solve? I also changed the adapter but nothing. I state that until some time ago they were read without the slightest problem.
do they have enough power supplied to the disks?
@@KyleErickson I connected the hard disk to a Hub, and then connected the latter to the current ... but nothing🥲😅
I hate that I cannot copy files from pc with overwriting existing. I mean if it in one folder with many folders, I have to rewrite the whole directory
Thank you very much for sharing the information. I have already switched my preferred storage to Western Digital NVMe SSDs and the enclosure I use is Inatek's. (It's not blazing fast but it get's the job done efficiently and it has active cooling.) My 12.9" M2 iPad Pro has 256GB storage so I'm not too fussy about storage. However, with the release of both Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad, I will most likely get another Western Digital NVMe but with the Acacias enclosure, for the sole purpose of using it with the iPad.
What I am curious about are those beautiful and informative widgets you have there. The ones showcased at 0:09 and 3:04 in your video. They not only display the storage of your iPad but devices connected to it. As well as, the write speed of the drives connected to it? It definitely seems that way. Could you give us the names of those apps so we can use the widgets please? I am most definitely interested.
Update: is it, Disk Test by Magic Benchmark? I just googled and that came up.
yup, that's that one! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for identifying the app. It is indeed very good and if one purchases pro version for 0.99EUR you get no adds and to see internal drive too, as well as ext.drives above 256GB. It would be great if the developer would create a real widget, so as to soo on home screen some of these useful information.
Cheers
Great video. Definelty would get in your car. ;-)
I have 4 external HDD for my iPad 10th wifi only 64GB....done this since last 2 years
Great video, quick question, do these work on iPad mini too?
at 5 gigabits/sec I believe on the latest gen
I assume you formatted the T7 to Mac OS extended (journaled) as APFS isn't an option before using with the iPad Pro?
everything is formatted to APFS
I neeeeed that wallpaper
Can ipad pro power 5tb external hdd
Great video. There’s also a lot of great questions in the comments. How come you don’t answer them?
Thanks! In regards to answering questions, I simply don't have time to comb through every video and answer every comment (I can get minimum dozens, sometimes close to 100 a day). These days I really have to limit myself as to how much time I spend in the comments section, not only because I'll spend all my time in there, but because it's just not a healthy way to live.
HI! is it possible to format the drive only by using the iPad? maybe encrypting it too?
The sad part with some models, its either 64 or 256 including the one I wanted, I chose 256. Its better to have more storage than what I need and not need it at the moment than need it and not have it.
Mr, Kyle which drive do I need to get for my apple ipad 9th generation ? I am a pastor and need it to write my sermons on ? Please help me with this information God bless you for answering me in advance thank you 🙏🏽
I’m looking into a ssd because my iCloud is getting full, and I don’t want to pay for more storage.
Would plugging a double c charger port work ?? Could i run a charger and the T7 at the same time ??
Just use a hub that has two USB c ports
I don’t usually buy my drives to drop them, I use them for storing files and such
good talk
Can I use APFS encryption on my iPad/iPhone devices with the Samsung T7 shield?
yup
Can i direct editing use external storsge at lumiafusion?
Ipad 9 basic
Yes
Could you use this on an iPhone to store photos to free up storage?
Yes
Hi, I tried connecting my usb-a hdd to usb-c port on an m1 iPad Air only to find out it’s not powering the thing on therefore no indication for active connection of external drive in the files app. Any suggestions on where am I wrong?
Probably not enough power for starters, I'd hook it up through a powered hub - but it could be a number of things. Drive format, faulty connectors, etc.
Hey brother will you please help me out with my storage issues on iPad 9th gen (2021) lightening port sucks...i want external ssd preferably the Samsung t7... Will it support if it'll then what speed can i expect... Or should i get an sd card and a lightening to camera card adapter... Please help me out. Love from India ❤️🙂
anything on that port will be very slow, 50-60 megabytes per second tops.
Hey, i just tried this with the included usb-c to lightning cable with an external ssd enclosure - they are not plug and play. You need a powered USB hub and then connect that to the ipad, so the usb hub itself needs to have a power source.
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@@KyleErickson so what to do now?? Which one to go with? sd card and adapter?
@@yesiam6758 thanks buddy will soon get a t7 and power hub and get my iPad some space to breathe 🤣❤️
Having a problem with SanDisk Extreme SSD 2GB Drive being recognized on iPad Air 3rd Gen. Any suggestions? I’m using Native Union Cable. Connects but won’t appear in Files. Thanks!
I think that’s the drive that he said was giving some folks trouble.
I just purchased an Ipad Pro M4, and I also purchased an SSD T7 1TB. My question is, I was told it's not good to connect a hard drive directly into the part of an Ipad Pro because it doesn't have the power source for that. That the SSD could do damage to the ipad. So it's that true? Thanks
Nahh, it's not true bro
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Samsung T7 Shield will work with iPad Air 5th?
Yes
I just bought a Samsung T7 SSD (1T) that came formatted as exFAT, which Apple says is compatible with iPad Pro M1, etc. Do you have enough experience - and collected anecdotal info - to do a video comparing exFAT vs. APFS on external SSDs for the M1/2 iPad Pro? That would be VERY useful! Thanks for considering this. 😊
Hello, I also just bought a T7 Shield for my Apple products. Can you use APFS encryption from the iPad Pro to store data on the T7? Will those files be encrypted and safe? Also there’s no app for IOS using the Samsung T7 which means I can’t use password protection.
Thanks for sharing ✨ but my ipad show read only options for harddisk, i can not able to copy data
What to do ?
are you talking about an external drive? I'm not too sure what your configuration looks like, so it'd be tough for me to figure it out. Sorry!