iPad Pro Photography/video editing/digital art 512gb with WD wireless hard drive or 1tb iPad Pro?

[Travish]

im trying to decide between:

1. An iPad Pro 12.9 with 1tb
2. An iPad Pro 12.9 with 512gbs and a WD wireless hard drive (ssd version)

I primarily use 2 different cloud solutions for back ups. I’m attracted to option 1 for that reason. I would save a significant some money going with option 2.

I’m also considering the 11 inch, but I would really like this to be as close to a Portable workstation as possible.
Thank you for your help. It’s appreciated.

 

[sparksd]

I use a wireless FileHub and attached USB HDD and do some RAW processing on my 10.5 iPP. I find the wireless transfer and associated file management to be too slow and inefficient for working with lots of images from a days shoot. If I were to upgrade my iPad and the $ weren't a big issue, I would go with the 1TB.

 

[Travish]

I use a wireless FileHub and attached USB HDD and do some RAW processing on my 10.5 iPP. I find the wireless transfer and associated file management to be too slow and inefficient for working with lots of images from a days shoot. If I were to upgrade my iPad and the $ weren't a big issue, I would go with the 1TB.

Thank you for your response. I’m leaning in that direction.

 

[Greenmeenie]

Thank you for your response. I’m leaning in that direction.

I went with the 1TB as well, but in the 11” because i travel a lot. Hoping iOS 13 opens up the usb-c port allowing for hooking up external Hard drives for video editing while on the road...but just in case got the 1TB ipad pro.

 

[muzzy996]

To me it’s all about anticipated workflow. What one expects to be able to do with their files, how many and the expectations of performance. For me shooting sports and wanting to do batch renaming and editing of several hundred files at a time there is just no way I can consider using an iPad, but I’ll do it for travel photos which are much lower in volume and processed at my leisure. My advice is consider your full workflow and how the devices you choose will fit into it.

 

[sparksd]

To me it’s all about anticipated workflow. What one expects to be able to do with their files, how many and the expectations of performance. For me shooting sports and wanting to do batch renaming and editing of several hundred files at a time there is just no way I can consider using an iPad, but I’ll do it for travel photos which are much lower in volume and processed at my leisure. My advice is consider your full workflow and how the devices you choose will fit into it.

Completely agree with this. At home, I use my desktop with Lightroom for processing. On travel, I'll process some subset of shots that I want to share or use in some other way while on the road. For a large number of files, I find that the iPad environment is too inefficient. But I would go with large storage to reduce that inefficiency.

 

[muzzy996]

Completely agree with this. At home, I use my desktop with Lightroom for processing. On travel, I'll process some subset of shots that I want to share or use in some other way while on the road. For a large number of files, I find that the iPad environment is too inefficient. But I would go with large storage to reduce that inefficiency.

Yup! Absolutely no reason one can’t supplement a workflow with another whether it’s iPad for computer or vice versa.