iOS 13 & iPad Pro Hard Drive Compatibilty and Demonstration

[@melgross]

I have that same Sandisk usb stick, 256GB. It works just fine, but it gets hellishly hot. A lot of Sandisk sticks get very hot. Some others do as well, and it really does need to be mentioned, as a lot of people are going to think something is wrong, but it’s not.

[@Lysander-Spooner]

Thanks, great info. To sum up the iPad Pro reads ExFat and not NTFS, got it.

[@WasmitReisen]

As you know, there are docks on the market for the iPad Pro with multiple connectors (usb a, c, sd-card, HDMI...). Have you ever tried to copy sd_cards from camera/drone to an external ssd on the fly via the iPad and its connected hardware-dock? That would be great on set, to secure sd cards on a backup ssd, but at the same time to use the iPad Pro to control the scenes on the big screen - to know, that everything is fine and has not be to redone...

[@dimitrimoonlight]

Appreciate that, can you try multiple devices connect to iPad and move files between devices? Check speed and compatibility, please

[@moh9hus]

Oh man you saved my day big time.. One of the things you mentioned was that your flash drive was NTFS formatted and that's why it won't even show on the files app when connect. I've been looking here and there for a reason why my hard drives are not showing up and been going crazy with it .. turns out I was connecting them as I should, but the problem was that they are NTFS drives 😂 THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this huge heads-up.

[@rkline65]

Everybody’s work habits and ways of doing things are different. But for me personally, THIS feature is a game changer....

[@teresamason1983]

No longer need to pay $$ for internal storage eh? I have mine connected to my NAS and love it.

[@Bobbylopezcreative]

Great content. I would have loved to see a demo of a usb-c multi port adapter connected to the iPad and show whether or not I can transfer files from an SD card to an external HD. I would love to leave my MBpro home when I do photo vacations.

[@djsepsis]

Great job as always, but thats what annoys be about apple...accomplashing something android could way back when, so they can upsell larger storage pads, its not like you could edit on lumafusion right from storage, right?

[@fabrivila2774]

Thanks for the video, excellent. But why doesn't it tell you that it needs external energy, is it because it is an iPad Pro, or because it is iOS 13? I have a 6 generation ipad. Thanks for answering.

[@ChilternburtYT]

Great video, 1 thing, with the Hero 7, you should try turning on the camera, once its plugged in and see if it appears.

[@BrendanEvan]

So clear and so helpful. I also use Lumafusion exclusively and storage on my old 64GB ipad is a huge problem!

[@JesusOsorioVlogs]

Great video, thanks ! Can you do some demonstration how works with lumafusion and ipados ?

[@mikemiles3068]

Super informative video‼️✅ this is the reason I getting a New IPad Pro this year, no more laptop for me,👏

[@ivoboehme]

My iPad Pro 1st gen lightning port does not connect with the myPP (hard disk Ex

[@jeffbrown3400]

Great video and very helpful. Which IPad model do you have or recommend for video editing as far as internal storage is concern? Cheers.

[@MOTOUK1]

I had issues on the OSMO pocket transferring files on to the photos app before files and ios13, funny how before the OSMO pocket update it worked though photos app but now not, I did complain through DJI but had no joy. Hopefully they will correct the file numbering to allow multiple files through the photos app. For now thank god for files and iOS 13 as I can transfer now through files.

[@thecritic1109]

Great video! I wanted to ask if you could make a comparison between the iPhone 11 and osmo pocket?

[@besttourinrio9]

Thank you very much for the info. That’s a great news finally we get free space to work no matter if your IPad Pro 3rd generation has just 64GB !

[@aleks0180]

Add “iPadOS” to the tags, so more people can find this video easily :)

[@AirPhotography]

Good call 👍

[@matthewledda6501]

Definitely, he tested out all the thumb drives I was looking at to use with my iPad Pro 2018 model

[@in_sympathy]

Great video, mate! Speaking of Hero7 - it works just fine but only through Photos app, not as an external drive

[@coulterjb22]

Good video! I tried connecting my 2nd generation iPad to the apple camera adapter and while it recognized the drive It choked on the 4K videos from the Mavic Air 2. It was able to read jpegs though. My iPad 4 (just came out during this COVID crisis) worked like a charm. Videos and everything could be worked on without the need to connect to a power source. Just the cable to the SSD drive. (I have the SanDisk Xtreme Pro 1TB drive). Thanks for the help!

[@JamesStanfordAK]

This has been great to watch, thank you. And you cleared something up for me that I originally thought was a problem with my Hero 6 black, which also isn't read by my iPad Pro 3rd gen.

[@brettbenicio1194]

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[@maximmakai9327]

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[@brettbenicio1194]

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[@brettbenicio1194]

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[@maximmakai9327]

@Brett Benicio Happy to help :)

[@ArzylOne]

Nice review!!! Is it possible connect an súper drive or any optical drive to the ipad? Thank you

[@BrianDangmrdang]

Thanks for testing the compatibility of the My Passport Wireless SSD. Straight to the point on what the problem was and what could be done, but also why it is problematic to do so. 👍

[@jessiesworldofficial]

I need a little help. How do you mass import those image or video files to your Photo app in the iPad Pro? I'm able to do it but only 1 by 1 and it takes forever to import all the media files...

[@gavejoke]

I advice you to try the new sandisk extreme pro aluminium enclosure it's read and write speed about 1 Gb and it uses usb c 3.1 gen 2

[@souviksamanta8938]

Apple release a new version of image, after upgrade all the drives are not detected. only APFS format was supported. Could you please help me how to format APFS format on my windows pC?

[@JPAbdalla]

Be able to connect directly to the Mavic 2 Pro and download the footage has been very handy for me!

[@Worthfishing]

JPAbdalla Can you download H.265 files to the iPad Pro from the Mavic 2pro? And will the video files play in Luma fusion?

[@LisaRamlow]

Thanks for the info on the file format! I have a Seagate Backup Plus that was not being recognized. Reformatted to exFAT and it works perfectly.

[@solopreneur3185]

How did you reformatted to ex FAT? My 4 terabytes seagate is nit being recognized also.

[@karissasenchuk]

I have this too. How do you reformat it?

[@kboone]

Thank you for the great information. Question, when you’ve completed your file transfer, do you have to eject/unmount the plugged in drive before you unplug it?

[@ex2bot]

There’s no need (and no way) to unmount before you unplug the drive.

[@mohamedkssm]

I like this video, I wondered if I can plug external Hard desk to IPad pro 11 / 2021 (128GB-8GB) , and directly open files xls, docs, ppts, and work on it, then save/close and it will be saved in the Ext. hard desk - or I've to import it > work on it > save it > export back to same folder in Ext. Hard desk. Simply > Use external Hard desk, as extra memory can use content files when ever I plug in. And do you recommend other model or specs if IPad pro 11, will not work it. Thanks for your advice

[@faraz6803]

I have never seen such an informative and detailed video before. Man, you're just awesome. I am sure your channel will have a great future ahead. Subscribed :)

[@SKYBELLE]

Does the LaCie work for iPhone?

[@Kiteruben007]

Nice video... but i still have issues reading the files on my IPad Pro 12.9 from a Synology NAS server.

[@teresamason1983]

I was able to read files on my Gen 2 iPad Pro 12.9 from my Synology NAS using a smb connection

[@manomis]

Thanks a lot !!! I format the wd my passport ssd into exfat and the sd card import works fine, as well as the plug into ipad. Thanks a lot for your tests and advices

[@AirPhotography]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@l0ranga]

I to formate my passport ssd pro to ExFat and and me iPad Pro 2018 still can’t it. Any tips?

[@benoitvincent8854]

Marcus Zetterblad, Hi, if you still have problem, Ensure that the latest version of IOS is installed on your IPad Pro Be sure to use the USB 3 connection and not the USB 2. Your SSD must be formatted as HFS+ or exFAT Your SSD must be closed. Open Folder than Connect your SSD This is how it works for me. Hope this help. Regards

[@krishnar3493]

You are very very thorough, sir. Thank you

[@AirPhotography]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@zizijarvis3233]

Did you reformat the external drives before plugging them in? I have the same Lacie 4TB hence the orange cord which I wish came with mine, however, nothing appeared on my iPad 2021. I read articles and watched other KZbin videos stating that the drive would first have to be reformatted before using. The information read and watched even stated that I would need a hub or dongle to work properly. The only options for the Lacie system were exFAT and NFTS (sp); the drive format by default was exFAT, however, I still proceeded to reformat on a Windows OS. Still nothing is showing up. I haven’t tried an adapter. Very curious as I haven’t seen you use neither.

[@Nick-sp2tm]

Hi, thank you for the video. Was searching an external hard disk to transfer files from my macbook pro to Ipad pro and also to do periodic backups of my Ipad pro without spending to much and the solutions that you show are interesting and I'm oriented to the lacie usb c 2tb but before I buy it are you sure that this product can satisfy my need that I exposed? thank you

[@Loutchianooo]

I believe every usb c drives work. You need them not to be formated in NTFS otherwise it doesn't work

[@JeremyKruis]

with the SSD drives, how does the transfer speed of video files compare with backing them up with the ipad vs backing them up with a computer?

[@CarinaKircher]

That is a super helpful Demonstration. Dankeschön!

[@phoenixbwp]

I've been having terrible issues with WD easy store drives as of iPad OS 13.1, not mounting or taking up to five minutes to mount! I have a Seagate 8TB HDD split into 2 partitions, it works fine, but I won't directly plug into my iPad Pro 2018 12.9 inch, but I'll connect via my iMac... My drive of choice is the Samsung 500GB SSD for now until I've saved up for a few more.

[@blue.lisart]

Hi, do you need to format your Lacie drive before using it on your iPad? Or can you just use it straight out of the box?

[@GroupIII]

Is it possible for LumaFusion to store the images we are editing in an external drive? Reason I ask is iPad storage always fills up my storage with other or system files. It’s so annoying, the only way to clear it is to erase the whole iPad and restore. I like my iPad but those unknown files are really killing my time and workflow. Appreciate any info to assist me. Thank you for sharing!!

[@MissChelle]

Thank you much, this was very informative & easy to understand for a tech newby. I have an older iPad Pro and want to be able to backup art & photos. (No PC) I was thinking of getting a portable drive. I happened to be looking at that SanDisk one you showed, but I need it to have a lightening adapter. If I use my normal charge cable Will it work the same as yours did?

[@UnPneuApreslAutre]

Nice review, greatly helped me 👍🏻 Short questions : which is the best, Samsung or SanDisk one ? And is it possible to upload into these disks from the iPadPro (download from is ok as you demonstrated it, but what about upload ?) Wait for your reply before to order 😀

[@zalkindi]

Great review. I’m curious to know if you tried to connect 2 drives at the same time. I tried to connect my camera SD card and the Sandisk SSD to see if I can copy from the SD directly into the SSD without copying to the iPad, like you do on a computer but it didn’t work. It only seems to recognize one drive at a time even if 2 are connected at the same time.

[@AirPhotography]

I haven’t tested that out but I plan on trying a few different methods to see if I can get it to work. That would maybe be a good way to transfer content from one drive to another without having to drop it on your iPad first if it does work

[@AlexLog314]

I have seen in other videos that it works by using a dock with SD reader / usb ssd. It recognizes both

[@RataPelua88]

This is what im looking for too.

[@RataPelua88]

logas69 do you by any chance have a link to vid? This is what ive been hoping to do

[@JFL1988]

we need more features thank that for iOS 15 deiniftly for apps and movies

[@PedroHofmann]

ahhhh thanks. I tried to use my WD passport with an USB to USB-c cable but it did not work. I didn´t realize that I have to use the special connection port and a dongle. Thanks for that! Great

[@beccahart2087]

Great video once again, love it, thanks, I know you use the iPad Pro but I’m wondering if anyone out there can suggest what to use with the iPad Air 3! Ideally “on the go” but also when back home with power! I’m struggling to find out precisely, that doesn’t cost a fortune! I want to back up my SD cards onto a hard drive and view the files and edit on my iPad Air 3! Many thanks for any suggestions 😁 keep up the great work 🙏

[@vaamorais]

Hi, great to finally have this feature. It would be very interesting to know the transfer speed, do you have any ways to check that? It would also be very interesting to know if you have a way to test the transfer speed when backing an SD card directly to an SSD. I appreciate this last question is a bit outside the scope of this video, but if you have any means of testing that would be helpful to know. For me it is a very common scenario at the end of the day to back files from an SD card, from my iPhone and from my drone all to an external SSD and knowing ahead the time I need to locate to that really helps. Thanks for sharing.

[@raitei1213]

What are the file system and allocation unit size settings for the portable hard drive? Can NTFS be used?

[@SuilujChannel]

here a trick for people with lightning connectors and a lightning to usb camera connection kit: if you connect a usb device directly it will say "usb device requires too much power". but if you put a multi usb hub between lightning/usb connection kit and the usb device it will work!

[@johnpower2018]

Very good. Just what I was looking for

[@sjmphotonyc]

Damn. What a great thorough video. Massive help. Thanks you.

[@barracod]

Can I use iPad mini 4 with LaCie Rugged USB-C Portable Hard Drive 2TB, and transfer files to it from an sd card?

[@Midnightposer]

Great... I use Linux Mint as my first computer but also an older iPad and MacBook Air and I wonder if the iPad Pro can read an external disk or memory disk formated in EXT4 the default format for Linux.

[@ex2bot]

I don’t think so. I believe FAT (not FAT 32), ExFAT, HFS+ and APFS are the only filesystems supported. (Encrypted HFS or APFS not supported)

[@DanWoodCoaching]

Both my iPhone 11 and iPad Pro are both lightning. Anything work that just plugs into both?

[@Eti1968]

Great video, question has been asked before but remained unanswered, what app do you use to edit video?

[@ex2bot]

I’m guessing Luma Fusion. It’s the most full-featured on iOS.

[@Chanalvin78]

Great video. Will 2018 iPads also be able read the drives?

[@martinowong]

Alvin Chan yes but you need an adapter to plug them in

[@ex2bot]

Use Apple’s Lightning to USB Camera Adapter.

[@radioactivecat]

Excellent video and demonstration! Thank you!

[@SomeStrangemysterious]

I have an iPad Pro 10.5 running latest ios13, Samsung T5, exfat formatted, the apple powered usb to lightning adapter and I am not able to get the files app to recognize my T5.

[@JoeKind1958]

Liked and subscribed! Great video, answered all my questions. Ok here comes my negative comment. The style of editing that you used in this video by stringing all your words together editing out any pause for breathing in or a simple break between words that is used in normal speech patterns to allow time for thought, drives me nuts. I find videos like this are hard to watch. Yes I know that a lot of videos use this choppy “trendy” style of editing but I am just throwing my honest opinion out there. Regardless of your editing style I do enjoy the content of your videos. 😁

[@AirPhotography]

Thank you for your perspective, it’s interesting because I do that because I feel that’s how more people would prefer to watch it. But you do make some excellent points

[@michaeldavis1841]

Great video, clear explanation. Thank you for sharing

[@fafonmek]

I Use iPad Pro 11 inch, Which one Sandisk extreme or wd wireless passport u would recommend? Thank you in advance🤟🏻

[@jamesgarcelo]

Hello I was wondering if you can use ssd drive for ipad and at the same time for windows pc? Will it work?

[@FrankDoorhof]

I tried a lot but somehow my speed is very slow. I see you copying a 2.12gb file in seconds. With my iPad pro I seem to be stuck at 25MB/s. It's a 11" iPad pro with latest public beta. It's a huge dissapointment to be honest copying 15gb took over 9 minutes which is terribly slow. On my laptop the same drive tops out at 250MB/s

[@teresamason1983]

Great video. Lots of informative comments as well.

[@GarethDix]

Thanks so much, i do all my editing video and photo on the iPad Pro as well and have been waiting for this. Quick question if you were using the samsung T5 to edit and the LaCie rugged as archive storage, is there a way of transferring files between the two without downloading to the iPad and then back to the other drive using a usb hub?

[@maral5677]

Excellent video! Thank you, very helpful!

[@noivon]

Are you able to import images from extreme SSD drive in LumaFusion? If yes, how? I can’t seem to find it. Thank you for sharing

[@TheRealBarkinMadd]

Head over to LumaTouch and post on their user forum - I think you’ll find that since LumaFusion always copies external media to its own internal media folders that it is just as fast for you to copy your media from the SSD to a LumaFusion folder of your choice using the files app (giving you more control over where your media ends up).

[@noivon]

Retract question. LumaFusion can extract data from external. Apologies.

[@ColinRobertson_LLAP]

Just bought that western digital ssd... and now its getting returned. Thanks! I watched your video because I wanted to know if it would pop up in iOS 13 because the Wi-Fi/app interface is so horrible.

[@VitalyLiber]

Hi. Did you connect WD ssd to your device? I have problems with iPhone XS

[@ColinRobertson_LLAP]

@@VitalyLiber I returned the WD drive and just bought a small SanDisk SSD.

[@ROUTES_SAUVAGES]

Can we transfer files from the ipad/iphone into the scandisk ssd ?! Thank you!

[@evyf857]

thank you for all the great infos in your video

[@Andyywu]

Hi, very nice video.. very informative. I have a question. with the proper dongle, can I plug 2 Drive (SD Card and HDD or SSD) together? In this case I needed to backup footages from cameras to HDD or SSD.

[@ickeausberlin36]

Yes, you can. However there are limitations. I connected a 1TB HDD and an old 2GB Thumb drive to my Iphone and transfered files. It did not work with my 6TB HDD. The HDD engaged and seemed to be busy but did not show in the files app. I am still looking for a way to connect my 1TB SSD (Sandisk Extreme) to the phone. There are reports IOS13 states the drive does not get sufficient power but mine does not get recognized at all (old Iphone 6S though). Next thing I'll try to power the SSD via powered hub or Y-cable.

[@carlosmanuelmonterrosonery1732]

Hello. Great video. I have a doubt. Did you have any problems when copying large folders with a lot (200) files? I’m having a problem that when I move large golfers or a lot if Giles, some of those files get corrupted or don’t pass. I’m using the extreme ssd harddrive and sdxc memory card. Thanks

[@AirPhotography]

Yes unfortunately sometimes I run into problems too. It can be a real pain but I tend to just do 50 to 100 files at once. And if the files are extremely large I do even less

[@joemarr4521]

Hey, thanks for a great video Out of interest can you tell me if the osmo pocket 4k files are transferable / playable straight away (unlike on the iphone) ? Thanks 👍🏻

[@YosiOren]

wow. I had the mimo app so the osmo pocket will launch the mimo app upon connection and would not let me use it in the files app.uninstalled and it worked.

[@barfy-man3628]

Yosi Oren can you explain a little more in debt what problem you were having and how you fixed it?

[@YosiOren]

Meowcats sure. On the iPad if the dji mimo app is installed , connecting the usbc cable cause the mimo app to launch. Going back to the files app , I did not see it connected as a usb drive and also on the osmo pocket it did not ask me to connect. Removing the mimo app from the iPad returned the functionality you showed connecting osmo pocket to the iPad and seeing it in files app.

[@barfy-man3628]

Yosi Oren thank you!!!

[@AirPhotography]

That is interesting to know I don’t have the memo app on my iPad I’m going to see if I can re-create the issue

[@russellmancillas4464]

Very informative, thanks

[@djtonzofun]

How do I disconnect the drive? Do I have to eject them still or just unplug it?

[@swahilijs]

You don’t list the Apple dongle? Thanks

[@MegaControltv]

genial !!! comprare un ssd externo now!! para mi iPad Pro

[@gongbuskar]

Excellent video very helpful great job.

[@AirPhotography]

Thank you

[@malcolmaaron22]

Probably quick to note, I’m using an iPad Pro 11” 2018, plugged a 5TB Lacie drive formatted to exFAT but the drive did not came out in the File app.

[@TheChameleon2008]

i love me some ssd but these cables holding me back..... they should come with a build in plug or wire.

[@saeedahmad3748]

Hi Very informative video. One question I had is that can we have our pic on external drive (that is not download to iPAD) and work on LightRoom or any other photo application? Please any once who tried that can tell me.

[@thatswhatshesaid42069]

MASSIVELY Informative video! Thanks man. 🔥

[@AirPhotography]

Thank you I’m glad you found it helpful

[@LaurentPieri]

did you test the speed between ipad to external disk ? it's awful !!

[@AnThOnY-NOW]

Would NVMe PCIe M.2 SSDs in an enclosure be a good option for external drive with iPad Pro and macOS?

[@analogshooter]

Can you use a usb-c hub (powered or unpowered), so you can offload from the Osmo Pocket to an external drive, not to the iPad's memory first, and then to the external storage afterwards?

[@benoitvincent8854]

For the WD my Passport Wireless SSD Pro, I received confirmation from Western Digital that it can be reformatted as HFS+ (to be used on Apple only) or exFAT (to be used on Apple and Window) without any problem. Reformat will only erase our data and not the pre-installed software/firmware/etc... It works well for me.

[@AirPhotography]

👍

[@elenaisabel95]

Excellent video

[@davidsalsberry5748]

Is there a limit of what the iPadOS will load/recognize? My thumb has about 76gb of pics/videos that won’t show up on the files app. The folders show up but when I try to open them it gets stuck at a infinite loading symbol

[@AirPhotography]

I’m not really sure of the answer. That is curious why it won’t load

[@staalearne]

Same problem with 26 GB video folder

[@AntonioClaudioMichael]

Good info and demonstration

[@AntonioClaudioMichael]

Nice Hdd and Ssd Drives were did you find the square external drives only ones I have found are tiny and rectangle

[@ex2bot]

Amazon and others carry those larger capacity SSDs.

[@tommieny1]

i was looking to take all my videos and pics captured on my ipad pro to external hard drive to clear up space on ipad this possible this way?

[@gosman949]

What size is your storage in the iPad? Did you go with the max 1 TB? Now that we can copy and move back in forth with IOS 13, is it necessary to have 1 TB internal drive now?

[@johnhuron5989]

My 12.9 iPad Pro has a lightening connector. Can I somehow connect to my WD Wireless Pro (non-SSD) with a cable? USB to Lightening dongle? Great video. Good solid info.

[@johnhuron5989]

Well duh. So an Apple charging cable should work? Any way to accommodate the USB3 capabilities of the WDMPWP?

[@ex2bot]

Apple’s Lightning to USB Camera Adapter should work, though you’ll likely also need a powered USB hub for anything bigger than a thumb drive.

[@tonyoconnor7292]

Hello, I have a LaCie 2 TB rugged mini and when I plug it into my 2019 iPad running on iOS 13.4 and my LaCie doesn't show up on my iPad. The LaCie drive is formatted to Mac OS Extended ( Journaled ). Any help would be greatly appreciated !!!

[@chinarut]

are there any power draw concerns connecting disk-based drives? I want to connect a 1TB G-Drive using a mini-USB Type-B to USB-C cable and want to make sure I don't fry my new iPad Pro (3rd gen) or have the disk head crash into the platter because it discovers it doesn't have enough peak power!