I was given a 1TB Seagate Backup Plus portable hard drive for my birthday. The only possible use I have for it is if I can somehow hook it up to my iPad2 64GB and put my documents and music on it to save my precious memory for software. Does anyone know how this can be done?
Thanks for helping...
iPad 2, iOS 7.0.4, 64 GB, No Cellular/Data
Can't be done. Cannot attach an external hard drive to an iOS device via USB. There are HDs that include a hotspot feature letting you connect to them via wifi. I don't know if your Seagate is that kind of drive.
BTW, such a drive would behave like a cloud service, like Dropbox. You would need apps that are capable of syncing their own files to a cloud location. Unlike a computer, it's not just a matter of using some file manager to access any file you want on the device and copy it to an external source. iOS device don't work like that. For example, to get photos to Dropbox, you would have to use a special app from Dropbox that could sync photos from the Photos app to and from Dropbox.
That's what I thought. It was a last ditch try to find a use for the drive. I will give it back, I guess.
Have an amazing day,
Geekausaurus
Can I use a Seagate 1TB hard drive (Backup Plus) for extended storage/memory?
