You are the *only person* who actually explained that an iPad doesn’t have enough output to power a disk drive, THANK YOU!!

Very helpful. My Mac is at Apple Store Service dept and now I can continue to do things on the Mac using my Mac backup drive remotely and temporarily.

Fabulous tutorial. Thank you!

Great info, thanks for your help!

Great video my guy. 👍🏽

So helpful. Thank you!

Great info, thanks! I'm going to recycle my AirMac 2013 and old iPad Air and combine them into one travel solution at 3 pounds less bag weight. I appreciate this video!

Very clear and concise. Thank you

gr8 video! informative and right to the point! Thank you!

Thanks Man. Saved me a lot of time.

Wow!! thanks for the detailed guide. I was wondering how to copy the files from SDD to ipad

Disregard...didn't know where to look. It works great!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Thanks very much

Exactly what I was looking for..Thanks a lot for your efforts

What would have been useful is if you had touched on the ways of formatting drives where you may want to share files between iOS and Windows

This is my initial review since I just got the ipad and I'm hoping to update it when I've had it longer kzfaq.infoUgkxUGaHtKW8MwCql2fPyIm9-ftTqSMzKFFA . I purchased one that was listed as "acceptable condition" and was a little worried about what it would look like. However, I am pleased with its condition. The back has some scuffs and a small dent near the logo. There are a few tiny marks at the bottom of the front of the ipad but the condition of the screen is perfect. There are no scratches or anything. I was able to set it up, use it, and it charges fine. I'm hoping it continues to work well for me. So far it was worth the purchase. Also shipping was fast. The item came one day earlier than expected

Good video.

Just bought iPad Pro 12.9” WiFi 1TB yesterday 👍🏼 I’ll use it for hobby / casual video editing on Lumafusion I’m looking to purchase an SSD . This video comes at a good time !

thank you so much for this video you just made. you helped me save a lot of money by not buying macbook, where i can use ipad instead. your looks made it a lot easier as well : )

Thank you for this video, you were very thorough and I was able to follow. Great video and content

Dud loves to hear him talk

Hi, nice informative video. I have a peculiar problem connecting SSDs to my iPad Pro 3rd Gen 12.9 in. I have two SSDs, both Sandisk, but one of them is the Extreme Pro version 1TB, while the other is the Extreme version 2TB. I use a Honeywell adaptor with a PD port that says 85 watts, to which I connect the original 20W power adaptor, while the SSD goes into the USB C (SS) port of the Honeywell adaptor, one by one though. The Extreme Pro 1TB connects perfectly and pretty much quickly, while the Extreme 2TB just doesn't show up in the Files app. The OS is 16.5, just updated yesterday. Any suggestion would help.

Does this work for transferring music to your iPad as well or just photos & videos?

So how do you transfer data from a pen drive to an iPad with a lighting port?

Do you have videos about Lightroom for IPad? Your video was best one for showing attaching two external HD. Now need to find out how to use LR on IPad with them!

Thank you and very helpful! However, I am unable to copy and paste from icloud drive into external drive. The other way around I can do. Is there anything else I am suppose to do to enable this action?

Can the ssd work directly with the iPad or iPhone with out extra power

great video, though I don't believe at any point in the video did you suggest what format the hard drive should be in, so that the iPad recognizes the drive when connected; mind answering the question? thanks

What dongle device are you using that is powered by house/wall power?

Thanks for the viedo, Could you please clarify whether it is possible to install games app inside external flash drive in ipad mini.

Thanks for this video. It helped me decide to buy 1TB ssd instead of upgrading ipad to 256GB in the same price.

Thanks for the video. Found it quite helpful. But wondering why in your video, you say ”if you have any questions post them in the comments “ but then it seems you only answered a couple-- of probably over 20? Regardless, I got some useful info.

Any advice? I have a (frustratingly costly) 8TB Samsung SSD installed within an exceptional External 2.5" USB C 3.1 Gen2 capable case (which works exceptionally well when plugged in to any PC or Android device). ~ The entire drive is formatted with one partition as an ExFAT partition. And despite my 2021 M1 iPad Pro 12.9" recognizing the drive (and its designated "label") within the "Files" App as soon as the drive is plugged in; it still wont see any files or directories.

I'd love to use an ipad pro while traveling just to offload/backup my footage (cfast cards to 2 ssd's). Can you "select all"? Because there are tons of files directly on the top directory of my cfast cards. And can you copy the footage on two drives simultaneously? Thx!

What about the lightning iPad?

Great stuff thank you. I want to use an enclosure and use my old laptop’s ssd drive. Would the iPad be sufficient in running it/ thanks

I have a Sandisk e61 2tb and it’s not recognizable on the iPad Pro. I can feel it get warm but i suppose the cannot support the power necessary for ssd

Very good but how do I safely eject the external drives ?

Great video, can external ssds connect to ipad mini 6?

Hi how would I connect the sadisk sdd to a 9th gen ipad out in the county side any help would be appreciated

Is there any way to determine used / available space on an SSD drive? Does not seem to be a feature if iOS or iPadOS.

Help me!!! I have an Ipad Pro and it does not recognize my external hard drive or USB after many attempts to connect. Can someone tell me what I might be doing wrong? How do I find out what type of drive is in the enclosure kit if I haven't built it personally? TIA

I have the lightning connector. My iPad Pro was purchased in 2016. I want to download pictures from a flash drive but can’t figure out how to do it.

Do you have to format it or could you use it straight out of the box on the sandisk SSD

Can we use the Apple dongle to connect our SSD? I have one but mainly use it for my macbook but will it work for iPad as well?

What about if you wanted to download a program?

How did you detach the external drive?

I am still rocking a 1st gen iPad Pro what hard drive is suitable I do have the lightning to usb adapter .

Did you say you can't open the files while they are on the external drive? Only when they are on the tablet drive they can be opened?

I have a sandisk extreme pro v2 1 tb but connecting it directly in ipad pro m1 in thunderbolt port is not recognize. Do i need a thunderbolt dock to power it up so ipad can recognize it?

When disconnecting a drive, does it not have to be unmounted first? I just ordered an iPad Pro primarily for this feature. Looking forward to it arriving!

How to unmount securely? Since there are reject option out there

Got my new iPad Pro 11 inch, my sandisk ultra doesn’t detect in ipad. Any idea?

My laptop just died and I only used it to hook an external hard drive up to save pictures would I be able to do this with an iPad Pro?

Thanks for the very clear run down. One question I have (that I may have missed the answer to) is whether the hub/dongle you’re using will run without external power (on iPad power only) to do file transfer. I’m a wildlife photographer and can be in the field away from power for days at a time. I can plug into a power bank in a pinch. But it’s often more workable if I can just run the hub directly on iPad power. Any help much appreciated! Cheers

i have ipad pro 1 1inch 2021 m trying to connect external ssd frm crucial brnd but its not showing in it how to solve this?

How do you format Samsung ssd for iPad pro

Hi, may I know if HDD portable hardisk can use this doogle? With the doogle having powered PD port can it have enough power to use the HDD?

ipad 2020 or 2021 available with connection to other adapters and gadgets? or any iPad with usb-c

I am using an iPad Pro 5th gen 16. iOS . I have a device like you have in the video to have power while having a external device. My problem is the drive never shows up on the ipad screen.

I bought a Satechi dongle and I can't complete the act according to the video. The dongle shows up but when I connect SSD or hard drive with a spinning disc nothing registers. You got any ideas. Or should I Satechi support or Apple?

oh Thank you Apple for letting me use MY iPad with My harddrive. Such generosity.

what format should the HDD be, I have a hub that sends power and everything but when I plug my toshiba 4tb HDD it reads as unknown and gives an error that can`t be opened???? On my samsung tablet it opens with no issues, any advise?

I have an older iPad with the lightning connection. I have a friend with boatloads of music on flash drives. Is there a way via adapters that I can upload the music onto my iPad?

I have an internal Samsung 850 500gb Solid state drive in an external closure. USB-C. By using a USB-C to Lightning cable, can I transfer data to and from a 2021 new iPad using the Lightning socket? Thank you. Geoff

How about the OS files and Apps files that u have installed or the whole HDD, can they be back up to one image file for later restoring??

From your video, it looks like SSD external drives are the only way the iPad can transfer pictures and video?

You should’ve demonstrated how to safely eject or disconnect an external drive from the iPad.

A couple of things: first, the iPads that have Lightning ports can certainly work with USB-C devices, if you use a USB-C to Lightning cable I have a couple of these. Secondly, the real issue here isn't connectivity, but rather, the compatibility of the operating system. I have two Seagate external drives (1TB and 2TB) and they work fine with Windows, but won't work at all with an iPad, even if I'm using the right cable to connect them with, which, in this case, would be USB-A, which "should" work with an Apple USB adapter (the type that has a USB-A port and Lightning port for power).

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.

Just avoid using spinning hard drives with the iPad. There’s no way of properly ejecting leads to no proper way of stopping the drive from spinning on an iPad.

Is it possible to transfer 70gb of music from old cd collection that is on a spinning hard drive to an iPad Pro? Many of my cd’s are not on Apple Music and out of production. I’m deciding between iPad or or a MacBook Pro.

Hey I am not able to copy from ipad to pendrive. But i m able to transfer from pendrive to ipad. How do I fix it.

Hi I have the same San disk but an iPad 7th generation, would it work in my iPad? Cause I’ve been trying but doesn’t work

Why do some files open and some are not reading when they were reading before? I hit open and its a black screen with just info but no option to play as it cant read the video. Very weird and frustrating.

Is there a way to eject drives?

See SSD in Files… IPAD (New MinI) ssays content unavailable because of unknown error. Did I need to have done a special formatting to use the SSD? I loaded files (photos, videos) from PC. Formats are jpg, etc.

I have the latest update and I also have Upgrow 7 in 1 USB C HUB. I can’t get anything to happen at all any advice?

Can you use externals with ipad gen 9/10 or higher? Im no apple expert, i just bought an ipad 9th gen for digital art.

T work with Lightening Ipads with latest OS and powerde by same devices ..with ome ore vmore HD?

I have a windows sector and a Mac sector to my hard drive but at the iPad Pro 2021 I can see only the windows sector. Do you know how can I appear the second sector?

I have same exact SSD shown at 9:16 I connect it to my iPad but it does not show up in the locations section in the files app on iPad. Please help. I only use it with iMac, so im assuming its formatted correctly for iPad OS.

How do I see RAW file photos (i.e. the image not just the file name) prior to importing, so I know what image to select to import. I can only see the file names. Thx

i tried using my brand new SSS 1GB external drive (exactly like yours) to my I-pad 9th gen by plugging the USB-C connect in to my I-pad power port from my SSD and it didn't work. The I-pad never recognized my SSD hard drive.

Jered, I have an iPad Pro 12.9 4th Gen running IOS17.4.1. It was a gift from a friend who wasn’t using it. Yesterday my main HP i9 laptop failed as it won’t charge. I know it’s not the battery and I suspect it’s something in the charging circuit that will need to be serviced. I removed the 500GB SSD from the HP and put it into a USB-C enclosure and plugged into the iPad. I do not see it in the iPad’s Files tab. The iPad does not recognize it. Since I have a multi-port dongle, I plugged the SSD into the dongle then plugged it into the iPad.Still nothing even though I know the SSD enclosure is getting power as I see the light on the enclosure and the wireless USB transmitter for my wireless mouse is working. Plus the USB-C cord from my phone charger plugged into the dongle is charging my iPad (but the same cord plugged into the port on my Magic Keyboard does not charge the iPad… very strange). I really need to be able to at least access my files on the iPad Pro so I can work while I get my HP laptop serviced. I know my Apple friends use their iPad Pros with the Magic Keyboard as a laptop substitute which is what I want to be able to do but can’t. Based on what I’ve described and your greater Apple experience than mine, what should I be doing? I can’t believe that I’m the only person experiencing this. I found your video helpful (I never knew there was the extra USB-C port on the Magic Keyboard) but I am at my wits end dealing with this. Can you help me? My EMA is fmc2900R@gmail if you can communicate with me, that would be greatly appreciated as well as posting a solution here for everyone to see. Is my problem related to a power issue? Is that what I am missing, why the SSD in the enclosure not being recognized?

can you run apps through the external ssd?

Can i view a hard drive from a 2012 mac pro if i purchase the base model 2021 ipad?

you missed formatting to FATex on a MAC or PC prior to use on the iPad.

how we will know how much storage is left in that ssd after using it …?

is it normal that the gb still appears the same on ipad storage and update from time to time?

Will SSD work with IPhones?

How to format the external SSD so as to be able to store 4K video files and edit them in LumaFusion on the iPad?

Can we used 1Tb HDD to connect to Ipad Pro M2?

Thanks for the very informative video! I am getting ready to purchase the iPad Pro 11 with either 256 or 512Gb. I would prefer to save a little money for the Apple Pencil and get the 256 Gb. Question, can you edit photos while they are sitting on the external hard drive? Or do you need to move them to the iPad Pro, edit and then move the photos back to the external hard drive? I have the Samsung T7 SSD drive. Thanks!

How do i pack my ipad music on a Sandisk portable

Hi great video ,one question the sandisc hard drive ,which generation did you use 1050 mbps or the 500 mbps Have heard of the 1050 mbps overheats not sure what os they were using

Any idea why I can see images but can’t see my videos on my iPad from my sandisk but can see them from sandisk on my Mac mini / permissions seem ok 🤨

will this work with a 10.5?

My external hard drive did not appear on my ipad; i can hear the external drive (1T) spinning, and I also at the same time charging my ipad pro and it is not showing up on my ipad; I tried with another external drive 10T (with external power adapter), it shows up on my ipad pro but disappear sometimes later, so the drive was on and off on my ipad, idk why