External hard drive for Ipad 2

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External hard drive for Ipad 2

Just purchased an Ipad 2 and very much love it. However, I do alot of photography and video taking. I want to use the ipad for editing photos and the videos. But then because these will quickly eat up my 32GB of storage I want to offload these to an external source like an external drive. I am quickly finding out that such a thing does not exist unless someone knows of one. There are of course cloud services but these are generally costly compared an external drive.

Any help or guidance would be appreciated

iPad 2

Posted on Jun 18, 2011 1:09 PM

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Answer 1

Kappy

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Jun 18, 2011 1:12 PM in response to chet0311

The Camera Connection Kit provides an SD card device that may do the trick if you can write to it.

Please get the iPad iOS 4 user guide.

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chet0311 Author

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Jun 18, 2011 1:18 PM in response to Kappy

Thank you for the reply. However, this only helps with transporting the photos back it forth. I then would need to figure out a way of taking the card and copying the files to the external hard drive.

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Kappy

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Jun 18, 2011 1:43 PM in response to chet0311

Get a USB SD card reader/writer for your computer. They aren't very expensive.

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Answer 4

Jun 18, 2011 2:54 PM in response to chet0311

Check out Sanho's Hyperdrive Hard Drive for iPad.

Regards,

Michael

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chet0311 Author

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Jun 19, 2011 6:59 AM in response to Michael Allbritton

Your information is not correct. According to the vendor that you reference you cannot copy from the Ipad to this external drive...you can only copy from the external drive to the ipad. This is only a one-way flow.

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King_Penguin

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Jun 19, 2011 7:17 AM in response to chet0311

I'm not aware of any that allow writing to from the iPad (though that maybe an iOS restriction). The Hyperdrive that Michael linked to has memory card slots in it (not sure whether all models do), so you can copy from your cards directly onto the drive, and then either copy from the card (via the CCK) or the drive to your iPad - so you can have the original unedited files backed up.

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Jun 19, 2011 8:49 AM in response to chet0311

No, it is not possible to copy data from an iPad to an external drive. However with the "Hard Drive for iPad" you can edit the data directly on the external drive. The draw back is that you have to put the data on the drive before you can access it on the iPad. The other hard drive, the 'iPad Hard Drive" has card slots which can be used to get your data onto the drive.

In short it is not possible to do exactly what you want to do, which, incidentally I also wanted to do, but one of the Sanho external drives may help you to get close. King Penguin is correct in that iOS does not allow for copying of data to an external storage source.

Regards,

Michael

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AirPi

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Jul 8, 2011 12:42 PM in response to Michael Allbritton

YES IT IS POSSIBLE WITH HYPERDRIVE!

iPad 2 Compatible

World's only iPad compatible USB hard drive
Stores and transfer to iPad up to 1TB of high definition videos and photos
Navigate hard drive directly with iPad
No special app or jailbreak required

Features

	Plug-n-Play. Just connect the HyperDrive to the iPad via USB cable and the Apple Camera Connection Kit and the hard drive volume will show up on the iPad. Supports any 2.5" SATA hard drive, 7.5mm/9.5mm/12mm thickness. Supports hard drive capacities 120/160/250/320/500/640/750GB/1TB and beyond Supports multiple partitions
	Select this folder icon in iPad to browse the contents within.
	Select this icon in iPad to go back to the parent folder
	Import 720p high definition videos from HyperDrive to iPad
	Import high resolution JPEG and RAW photos from HyperDrive to iPad

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Answer 9

Jul 8, 2011 2:04 PM in response to AirPi

What chet0311 means is they want to export things to the disk. The hyperdrive only let's you import things to the iPad but not back to the hyperdrive.

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Answer 10

Aug 9, 2011 6:40 AM in response to chet0311

Couple of ideas that would be a bit slow is to email them to yourself when finished (if small enough) then put on your computer. Not clear why hyperdrive wouldn't work since you can just work with them there. I'm like you, would be nice the other way and there is the 64G pad2 but still a bit limited with videos' sizes.

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Answer 11

Aug 24, 2011 2:02 AM in response to chet0311

I use the Camera connection kit to get photos onto the iPad and the use Dropbox (app and on pc) to upload them from iPad And the store on pc. Can have external hard drive connected to pc. Dropbox basic is free. Try it

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Dec 30, 2011 10:13 PM in response to chet0311

You can always connect to any storage of choice via wireless connection.

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Chris CA

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Dec 30, 2011 10:38 PM in response to williamfromboulder creek

williamfromboulder creek wrote:

You can always connect to any storage of choice via wireless connection.

No you cannot.

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tvjohn

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Jan 6, 2012 12:07 PM in response to Chris CA

As williamfromboulder creek above correctly points out, you certainly can write to a wifi drive. I upload my photo's & videos from my iPad 2 to a Seagate Goflex Satellite wifi HD. I installed a FTP server to it (drive is Linux based) & there are several good ftp clients on the App Store, a nice fast free one being "MediaTransfer".

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Chris CA

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Jan 6, 2012 5:12 PM in response to tvjohn

tvjohn wrote:

As williamfromboulder creek above correctly points out, you certainly can write to a wifi drive.

That's not what you wrote.

You mean it can connect to wifi drives, with special apps made to use with iPads.

That is not the same as "always connect to any storage of choice via wireless connection."

The iPad is always on a wireless connection and it cannot connect to "any storage of choice".

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