I plan to purchase an iPad Pro 9.7 and want to be sure I purchase one with enough storage. I plan to initially sync a collection of family photos in a folder on my MacBook Pro that is 61GB in size and contains 163 sub-folders (all at the same level below the main sync folder). I will probably also transfer another 10GB of documents and pdfs.
Will 128GB of storage be enough or should I get 256GB of storage?
Thanks for your assistance.
iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2
Well, everything will fill up eventually, get what you can afford. Don't forget, music, apps and videos eat up space too.
Get the most you can afford. Or: if you want to use iCloud drive, then it would all be stored in the cloud - here is a link as I don't use it at all.
A 128 GB iPad will only have about 114-116 GBs of usuable free data storage space.
So, you'll end up with approx. 44-45 GBs of left over free data space on a 128 GB iPad.
In addition, iOS doesn't use folder structures, so, anything you have organised in a folder hierarchy, on your computer, will be lost when transferred to an iDevice running iOS.
Thanks for all of the above helpful replies.
I thought that when transferring pics in subfolders (one level below the main sync photo folder), that each subfolder containing pics on my MacBook Pro would appear as separate āalbumsā in Photos on the iPad Pro, with the names of the albums being the same as the names of the sub-folders on my MacBook Pro. Is that correct?
MichelPMās reply that āIn addition, iOS doesn't use folder structures, so, anything you have organised in a folder hierarchy, on your computer, will be lost when transferred to an iDevice running iOSā suggests that I am wrong.
Are you using the Photos app on your MacBook?
If yes, then everything should be fine.
I am still using the older iPhoto and iPhoto doesn't have this ability to keep images in their respective folder hierarchy.
The Photos app on iOS will arrange images as it is designed which is different from the way I save images in iPhoto.
So, if you are using the Photos app on both Mac OS and iOS, you should not encounter any issues.
Good Luck!
DevonParish wrote:
I thought that when transferring pics in subfolders (one level below the main sync photo folder), that each subfolder containing pics on my MacBook Pro would appear as separate āalbumsā in Photos on the iPad Pro, with the names of the albums being the same as the names of the sub-folders on my MacBook Pro. Is that correct?
MichelPMās reply that āIn addition, iOS doesn't use folder structures, so, anything you have organised in a folder hierarchy, on your computer, will be lost when transferred to an iDevice running iOSā suggests that I am wrong.
It is correct. I got 1 folder 'iPad Photos' to sync with my iPad. I have several sub-folders directly under 'iPad Photos' folder (eg: USA, Canada, California and there are no other sub-folders under those folders). My pictures are stored in those sub-folders and they become the album names (USA, Canada, California etc) in Photos app.
128GB should be enough if you plan to use it mainly to store photos. If you add e-mailboxes, apps and lots of other things, you're going to run out of space very quick. I would get the 256GB if money is not an issue.
I concur with Shag CA, about getting the largest storage version and move toward the 256 GBs storage model iPad Pro, if you plan on using your iPad, primarily as a image repository.
The Pro will fill pretty fast if you store high resolution images and with what you already have to store, that remaining 45 GBs may get filled up sooner than you think if you want to use your iPad for other things and run other apps and store data from those apps.
Apple dropped the price of the 256 GB iPad Pro to what the 128 GB model used to sell for.
Yeah, it will be a lot of money for an iPad, but you'll have more flexibility with it, in terms of storage.
I would have purchased the 256 GBs storage model had they offered it when Apple launched the large iPad Pro back last November.
But I still have about 44 GBs of storage on my device and I am still on the fence about whether I want to store all of my images on a offsite, "Cloud" server somewhere or not.
Amazon has a sweet deal right now where you can store unlimited data to their Amazon Cloud drive service for $5/month or $60 a year.
My issues is how secure is their storage service.
So, that is why I am still on the fence with these kinds of offsite storage services.
That and the NSA.
Good Luck to You!
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Thanks for all of the valuable input. Reading the above comments made me think about possible future uses, I can see possibly using the iPad Pro for taking videos of family gatherings, which could consume a lot a data. So 256GB it will be.
A wise choice. Whenever I have bought less than the maximum, I have regretted it. There is no such thing as too much storage.
sallenmd wrote:
There is no such thing as too much storage.
Yes there is. It all depends on how we use the device. I bought a 64GB iPad Air in 2013. The total data including iOS is still less than 40GB today. I wanted to buy 128GB back then but thankfully it wasn't available that day. 128GB would be too much storage for me.
While I was exaggerating by saying "no such thing", I am quite certain that those who wish they had paid for more storage outnumber those who think they bought too much by a ratio of many thousands to one.
How much storage for iPad Pro 9.7?
