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All iPads External hard drive or SSD for iPad 9.7 inch 5th generation which one will work without extra power ?

it won't work, no HDD will work, and this is a HHD not an SSD (not even all SSD will work, only small and low power ones will...)
 
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max2 said:
Your wrong. This one will.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06X6H1LY6/ref=twister_B06XHXFGDK
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The link redirected me to amazon.de, as I am in Europe. Amazon has the terrible habit of redirecting you based on your location....
Anyway I checked it on amazon.com and this is a wireless drive. But that a completely different thing... This won't work over USB... it will work over wifi, that is if will stand in between your router and your ipad... It won't be nearly as fast as a wired drive. But the main problem with this solution is that many of these drives slow down the ipad since they create a network which is poorer than your router... and if you want to reconnect to your router you'll have to switch wifi connection every time...
You are probably better off plugging a regular drive to your router, if it has a USB port....
 
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Digitalguy said:
There is a way to make it work, but only some SSDs will work.
You need a USB 3.0 CCK and you should plug a power bank with a lightning cable into the lightening port of the CCK. Then you should use a low power SSD, like the Sandisk Extreme Portable SSD. Mind you, only up to 500GB. The 1TB version and up will take too much power and will only run on Ipad pros (except the 9.7, which works like any other basic ipads).
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Ive got a CCK and tried this before, but I didn’t plug in a lightning cable into the lightning port of the CCK so I will give this a try, thanks Digitalguy.

Weirdly, my Fiio K1 usb DAC does work with the cck without power. Maybe it is low powered enough to work.
 
snipr125 said:
Ive got a CCK and tried this before, but I didn’t plug in a lightning cable into the lightning port of the CCK so I will give this a try, thanks Digitalguy.

Weirdly, my Fiio K1 usb DAC does work with the cck without power. Maybe it is low powered enough to work.
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no, USB thumb drives are all low power enough, it's more a matte of "protocols"... (like some music instruments being "core compliant"). I have a small usb 2.0 hub that meets these protocols and you know what, when I plug a usb thumb drive via this mini unpowered hub, they work on any ipad without any power, so it's not just a matter of power... (for SSD it is instead...)
 
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Digitalguy said:
The link redirected me to amazon.de, as I am in Europe. Amazon has the terrible habit of redirecting you based on your location....
Anyway I checked it on amazon.com and this is a wireless drive. But that a completely different thing... This won't work over USB... it will work over wifi, that is if will stand in between your router and your ipad... It won't be nearly as fast as a wired drive. But the main problem with this solution is that many of these drives slow down the ipad since they create a network which is poorer than your router... and if you want to reconnect to your router you'll have to switch wifi connection every time...
You are probably better off plugging a regular drive to your router, if it has a USB port....
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Prior to iOS 13.x, with my 10.5 Pro I used a wireless FileHub with up to a 4TB drive attached. Great solution for travel but as you say, slow transfers. I still take it on the road and use the Ethernet connection to create a wireless network in those occasional places still just wired (they do exist) and to get around restrictions on number of devices connected to a hotel network (it does bridging well). I also use it on the road with my 12.9 Pro to back up from a photo SD card to a HDD because of corruption issues I have run into with Files and exFAT when transferring a large number of files.
 
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Just got the WD 4TB My Passport Wireless Pro Portable external Hard Drive and it works great!
 
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Ok it worked great for HD video files 4k not so much.

It buffers at least 2 or 3 times sometimes which sucks and the weird part only certain 4k videos. I don't get it. I tried everything.

Now my next question would it to be possible to get a normal Portable external hard drive, connect it to a normal iPad 5th generation, but power it through usb on a portable battery or a car outlet usb ? At the same time having it connected to said iPad so you can access the files ?

The reason I would need to connect it twice of course is obvious but just in case it isn't so the drive would get enough power.

If I could fix the 4k video files on my wireless portable drive I would use it. I mean for crying out loud it even advertises Streaming 4k on the box.
 
max2 said:
Ok it worked great for HD video files 4k not so much.

It buffers at least 2 or 3 times sometimes which sucks and the weird part only certain 4k videos. I don't get it. I tried everything.

Now my next question would it to be possible to get a normal Portable external hard drive, connect it to a normal iPad 5th generation, but power it through usb on a portable battery or a car outlet usb ? At the same time having it connected to said iPad so you can access the files ?

The reason I would need to connect it twice of course is obvious but just in case it isn't so the drive would get enough power.

If I could fix the 4k video files on my wireless portable drive I would use it. I mean for crying out loud it even advertises Streaming 4k on the box.
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As I said earlier, this SSD, plus a camera connection kit 3.0 and and lightning cable connected to a power bank will work, but only the 500GB version https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-500GB-Extreme-Portable-External/dp/B078SWJ3CF/
Please also note that lightning on non pro ipads is at USB 2.0 speeds...
 
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max2 said:
The USB 2.0 speeds is not a problem.

The issue is only 500 GB I need at least 1 TB.
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1TB won't work, another member of the forum tested both and only the 500GB worked, the 1TB requires too much power for lightning on non pro devices.... (I have the 500GB by the way...)
 
Digitalguy said:
1TB won't work, another member of the forum tested both and only the 500GB worked, the 1TB requires too much power for lightning on non pro devices.... (I have the 500GB by the way...)
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Thank you.
 
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chrfr said:
The 1TB Samsung T5 works with a 9.7" iPad Pro, as long as external power is connected.
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What about a iPad 5th generation ? Also how do you connect external power please ? Sorry.
 
max2 said:
What about a iPad 5th generation ? Also how do you connect external power please ? Sorry.
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the 5th gen is no different from the 9.7 pro, so if this has been tested to work, it should work with any ipados ipad...
 
Great the wd wireless drive broke somehow by going from 2TB to only 250gb I have no idea how.

A last try having a replacement shipped out to me.

Otherwise I will try the other way without wireless and just direct cables. It is just so lovely to not have all these wires with me.
 
I think I figured out a way to make the drive wireless or wired for my iPad! Best of both worlds win win.

Unless it dies again or I decide to get a SSD instead.
 
Ok finally got 4K files to not buffer over wireless!
 
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