Is 16GB of storage space enough for an Ipad?

16Gb works nicely for me, a little tight sometimes when I want to havea few movies and large apps on board. But the 16Gb made it so my wife and I both got to get orginal iPads. (saved up for a laptop, saw the press conference, did the math.) So ours was a little of necessity (she told me to get my own when 3G came out), a little of usage levels.

I know people that like to have their entire song collection with them, all 200+Gb. If your one of those, then go as large as you can afford.

Jason

Nope. 16GB for a phone is more than plenty though. I can understand not bothering to watch movies/videos on a small phone screen. But iPad is totally different... you're gonna WANT to run movies/vids and file sizes average 1GB easily. Leave the 16GB option for your phone isntead.

Oh and dont forget that iPad apps are generally larger than iPhone apps.

It depends how much video, movies and music you want onboard.
I use a 16 gig and currently have 4 gig remaining.
Movies use 1-2gig And music can take a lot if you have many thousands of songs.
Also Photo files and music videos can use a lot of memory.

I'd prefer 32 gig for my next iPad.

Individual films (if in HD format from iTunes) can take up over 1 gig each, and your music could also take up a fair chunk of space. Apps tend not to take up too much space - Pages is listed in the App Store as 51.3 meg, and Keynote as 69.9 meg. The iOS and built-in apps will also reduce the amount of avilable space to you.

Remeber though, once you've bought it you can't increase it's capacity - if you can afford it go for the 32, as it's it best to have too much space than too little.

I have the 16GB ipad 1 and I'm satisfied with the storage it provides. It depends on how you plan to use it. I don't need more than 3 movies at a time on it, but if you want to watch movies every night on a long trip or keep all your music on it at all times you'd probably be happier with more storage.

Bear in mind that 16GB model = 14GB real world storage.

Also bear in mind that you can stream all of your media to an iPad, so as long as you're in range of your home network you don't need onboard storage and 16GB is enough for a load of apps. You only really need more than 16GB if you want to have access to a fair bit of media while on the move.

On a file-by-file basis, video will be by far your largest consumer of storage, followed by music files and that depends on how you obtain/create yoru music files. Most of my music comes from a personal CD collection which I routinely rip at a bit rate of 320 (making for some large files). You can go smaller and sacrific audio quality but still get good sound.

I have a 16 GB and wish that I had gone with 32, but still manage pretty well. It may be that I don't store as much video as you would (most of my video veiwing is streamed via Netflix.

Remember with Home Sharing and iOS 4.3 you can now stream music, movies etc from iTunes straight to your iPad. This means you only need to store any music, movies etc you want to watch away from home. This move means my 16GB iPad is now more than enough storage for your needs. Worth bearing in mind if money is tight.

I had 16GB on my Ipad 1 and managed fine, but I did fill it up a few times (esp. when adding a few videos for the kids when traveling). So I got 64GB on my Ipad 2 (really 59GB). To be sure it's a luxury but far from necessary.

I have a 16 GB iPad and a 16 GB iPhone. The latter is filled with my music, and is my primary listening device. On the former I have about 500 songs, at any time no more than 2 movies. When I have movies on I'm up to about 12 GB used. The ebooks and apps are really minor in terms of space.

I know quite a few people with 16GB iPads who haven't run into problems. At the very worst, they have to choose between movies to take on a trip before they go. Not a major inconvenience, in my opinion. It still holds plenty of music, apps, and has room for a few movies/tv shows.

If you're looking to record a lot of your own videos as well, or want to have an even greater selection of movies and music, then bumping up to larger capacity would probably be worth the expense for you.

I would have to say no. For an iPhone were main use will consist mostly of utility use, less entertainment and heavy application use a 16GB should work well.

But for an iPad, especially if you plan on this being your main device I would go larger.

Read this post: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/ipad-storage-challenged/773

It depends. I feel like you have to restrain yourself better, but it should be possible.

I have a 64 gb ipad 1, and was wondering the same with the ipad 2. Would 16gb work? I trimmed the fat off of my full ipad 1 to see how it would look on a 16 gb device, and I did see it possible, but it's not a lot of wiggle room. I had about 10 gb of apps, 10 gb of music (no pod casts), and 8 gb of photos.

YMMV. My main use for ipad is safari, mail, and apps, so it should be doable if you have similar needs.

I use a 64GB iPod touch, and have 3GB remaining. Still waiting for the iPad to come in the mail (marked as "prepared for shipping"). So it depends on how much music, movies, photos, books, and apps you want to put on it. I have a little over 30GB of just music alone on the device.

PrestonV wrote:
I would have to say no. For an iPhone were main use will consist mostly of utility use, less entertainment and heavy application use a 16GB should work well.

But for an iPad, especially if you plan on this being your main device I would go larger.

Read this post: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/ipad-storage-challenged/773

Whoever wrote that article needs a lesson grammar. Right from the first sentence

Will be the iPad be a big success?

I know the writer isn't educated.