External HDD compatible with Ipad Pro

You can purchase either any USB/USB-C flash drive stick or any USB-C SSD ( Solid State flash memory Drive ).

SSDs, unlike older, old school data storage hard drives are less power hungry and have no moving/spinning, electro-mechanical parts that need lots of power to operate.

Popular SSDs are from SanDisk/Western Digital, Samsung, Seagate.

For an external power sources, you can even use small portable, rechargeable, “go anywhere” battery power banks.

You can find various wattages and price points of these online, from places like Amazon.

You must use a full Mac or Windows PC computer to do the re-formatting of any external drive to use with iPad/iPhone/iOS/iPadOS.

My experiences have recommended that any external drive needing to be used with ANY Apple iPadOS device really needs to be formatted on an Apple Mac computer to ensure/insure correct operation.

If NO Mac computer, find and family member or friend that owns a Mac to possibly help you format this drive

OR

You need to search online for your nearest, “local” Apple store location and call contact phone numbers and call to make an appointment to ANY external drive you have properly format by Apple employees who have access to a Mac.

They will be glad to assist you.

In addition, the external drive needs to be formatted using a single data drive partition into one of these file/data formats below.

Apple Mac computer native drive formats - APFS ( Apple Proprietary File System ) OR Apple HFS+ ( Hierarchical File System+ )

FAT 32

Ex Fat

Apple Website external drive help links here below.

Tap on the links below.

Connect external devices or servers with Files on iPad – Apple Support (UK)

Connect external storage devices to iPad - Apple Support

Best of Luck to You!

To be recognised by iPadOS, the attached USB storage device must be formatted to FAT, FAT32, exFAT, APFS or HFS+ with a single partition. Microsoft NTFS and other proprietary device formatting are not supported.

Formatting and partitioning, if required, must be performed using a separate computer; iPad does not provide any facilities to format an external storage device.

You should also understand that Hard Disk Drives are notoriously power-hungry - and will likely require more power than your iPad alone can supply. As such, unless your external HDD has its own source of power, you must either use a powered USB hub - or for iPads with a Lightning connector, must use an Apple Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter to which you must also connect your iPad Power Adapter. The Power Adapter must be rated at least 12W (2.4A @5V) - although a 20-30W Power Adapter is recommended.

SSD and other flash-storage are considerably more power efficient than traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDD).

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