I recently purchased the ssd, 2tb. Purchased the phone jack/ lightning adapter and I don’t have enough juice to operate hard drive through a 20w wall wart? This I have read is the recipe for making this combo work. No dice. What do I do other than take this thing to the retail shop?
iPad, iPadOS 17
While Hard Disk Drives (HDD) are notoriously power hungry, SSD storage devices require much less power to operate.
However, an iPad with a Lightning port will still be unable to source adequate power to operate external storage devices. As such, unless your external storage has its own source of power, you must either use a powered USB hub and/or 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.
While Hard Disk Drives (HDD) are notoriously power hungry, SSD storage devices require much less power to operate.
However, an iPad with a Lightning port will still be unable to source adequate power to operate external storage devices. As such, unless your external storage has its own source of power, you must either use a powered USB hub and/or 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.
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.
More information about connection to external devices and storage can be found in the iPad User Guide - along with other frequently overlooked information about your iPad and iPadOS:
suppose putting an ac powered usb-c hub in between would be able to provide the hd
I neglected to mention that I attempted to run this thing through the camera (usb3/lightning) adapter.
Formatted to exFat. Camera adapter. 20w power. It worked, for a few minutes. I got the “not enough power” error again. Am I missing an important step here?
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