iPad Pro iPad Pro 2021 + Samsung T7 SSD?

[sparksd]

Yeah I guess we can say it's part of the exFAT anomaly with iPadOS... Which is a shame since this is supposed to be multi-platform file system (iOS, MacOS, Windows, Android). For those locked in the Apple eco-system this might not matter, but for everyone else it's an annoyance...

It should be noted that most camera cards are formatted exFAT - not an area where you want corrupted files/media.

 

[Marcosss]

I formatted the T7 to APFS this afternoon,

copying 10gb of video files from T7 to iPad.
ExFat = 20secs
APFS = 15secs

copying 10gb of video files from iPad to T7
ExFat = 1min 50secs
APFS = 27secs

I now don’t need ExFat as i have no need to plug into to a Windows PC so all is fairly good for me, i expect the speed results will be even quicker doing the same test on my iMac Mini M1 ?

maybe there will be more to come wit IPadOS 15?

Clover Hater should have added “ I DONT REPLY TO QUESTIONS I COMMENTED ON” ?

I just bought an iPad Pro 2021 and Samsung SSD T7 and when i connect it the problem is it says " read-only " i format the SSD and i changed it the file system to NTFS but the same problem, Do you have any solution?

 

[Marcosss]

Has anybody tried the iPad Pro 2021 and Samsung T7 SSD? What read/write speed did you get?

I just bought an iPad Pro 2021 and Samsung SSD T7 and when i connect it the problem is it says " read-only " i format the SSD and i changed it the file system to NTFS but the same problem, Do you have any solution?

 

[chrfr]

I just bought an iPad Pro 2021 and Samsung SSD T7 and when i connect it the problem is it says " read-only " i format the SSD and i changed it the file system to NTFS but the same problem, Do you have any solution?

That's to be expected. iPads and Macs only offer read-only NTFS support. If you're just using the drive with a Mac or iPad, format it as APFS. Otherwise you can try FAT32 or ExFAT but I've seen some reports of people having corruption when using ExFAT on iPads.

 

[Marcosss]

I just bought an iPad Pro 2021 and Samsung SSD T7 and when i connect it the problem is it says " read-only " i format the SSD and i changed it the file system to NTFS but the same problem, Do you have any solution?

 

[sparksd]

That's to be expected. iPads and Macs only offer read-only NTFS support. If you're just using the drive with a Mac or iPad, format it as APFS. Otherwise you can try FAT32 or ExFAT but I've seen some reports of people having corruption when using ExFAT on iPads.

Correct on the NTFS as read-only and then there's my lengthy thread on exFAT corruption issues:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/file-corruption-on-copy-to-external-storage.2235171/

 

[InuNacho]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but can someone confirm that a T7 will reach faster speeds with a M1 iPad? On my old 2018 it was locked to almost USB 2 speeds.
I'm thinking of buying one to work on Affinity Photo files on the go but absolutely need a fast disk to transfer the files from an iPad to my Windows computers so it will be in exFat.
Does cabling matter? I have a couple extra Thunderbolt 3 cables.

 

[Digitalguy]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but can someone confirm that a T7 will reach faster speeds with a M1 iPad? On my old 2018 it was locked to almost USB 2 speeds.
I'm thinking of buying one to work on Affinity Photo files on the go but absolutely need a fast disk to transfer the files from an iPad to my Windows computers so it will be in exFat.
Does cabling matter? I have a couple extra Thunderbolt 3 cables.

2018 shouldn't be at UBS 2.0 speeds, so there is probably some bottleneck somewhere. Are you using the original T7 cable?

 

[Digitalguy]

2018 shouldn't be at UBS 2.0 speeds, so there is probably some bottleneck somewhere. Are you using the original T7 cable?

PS Just tested on my 2018 and M1 with a 2GB file, it took roughly 10 seconds to transfer on both, in both directions. That's around 200-250MB/s, so way higher than UBS 2. So no major speed difference as expected, since the T7 is not a Thunderbolt drive. And if Apple Silicon Mac is slower with UBS drives than Intel / Windows I am not surprised iPads are somewhat slower than USB 3.

 

[InuNacho]

PS Just tested on my 2018 and M1 with a 2GB file, it took roughly 10 seconds to transfer on both, in both directions. That's around 200-250MB/s, so way higher than UBS 2. So no major speed difference as expected, since the T7 is not a Thunderbolt drive. And if Apple Silicon Mac is slower with UBS drives than Intel / Windows I am not surprised iPads are somewhat slower than USB 3.

Yea, on my old iPad Pro 2018 it was slow as molasses, any combination of cabling would refuse for it to go faster than 30-40MB/s. This was a couple of years back so maybe a new update to the OS has changed things.

 

[Digitalguy]

Yea, on my old iPad Pro 2018 it was slow as molasses, any combination of cabling would refuse for it to go faster than 30-40MB/s. This was a couple of years back so maybe a new update to the OS has changed things.

To be honest, I have seen similar speeds for at least 2 years already. Maybe it's a matter of apps (the file app is not very reliable (I use Filebrowser pro, mainly to avoid corruption of exfat). Anyway, an M-series iPad won't give any additional speed with a T7.

 

[InuNacho]

To be honest, I have seen similar speeds for at least 2 years already. Maybe it's a matter of apps (the file app is not very reliable (I use Filebrowser pro, mainly to avoid corruption of exfat). Anyway, an M-series iPad won't give any additional speed with a T7.

Great thanks for that tip on Filebrowser Pro. I'll look into it when I get my iPad.

 

[sparksd]

Great thanks for that tip on Filebrowser Pro. I'll look into it when I get my iPad.

I just used it yesterday with my M1 12.9 to transfer 23GB of RAW images from an SD card to a T7 SSD, using a USB-C hub (Anker). Not a single corruption, worked flawlessly.