Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
What good are 256gb for in the iPad 10.5
- Thread starter enigma2k
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
But, either double the details stored, or half the space consumption. Anyway, it is not too hard to consume video contents taking 200GB of space during the free time.
Sure. If you've got an older computer, it'll just take, oh, about forever to convert it to h.264/h.265 for iOS consumption.
Last edited:
All six seasons of Dr Katz, five of Battlestar Galactica, plus Babylon 5 and I've already used a substantial majority of 256gb. Plus 20gb of music, 3gb of photos. Still I'll be getting the 256 because my wife would kill me if I spent more.
So, do you need to regularly watch all that every time your iPad is away from network connectivity?
I get it, some people are pack-rats. I have several TB of media on my NAS. I just eventually realised i barely ever watch any of it.
Thus, i do not need to carry it with me everywhere all the time, and there's no point massively increasing the cost of my iPad to do so. If you like setting money on fire, sure... go for it.
But personally, even if I WAS to take a heap of media with me, I'd be taking HD copies rather than BD rips because the majority of it is only HD content anyway, and on a 10" screen you're unlikely to notice much difference anyway.
WIFI hard drives also exist which is a far cheaper way to stream a heap of media if need be for those rare cases you're out of network coverage.
Leave the super fast SSD for working data.
But hey, if you want to throw way too much money at media consumption, go nuts.
2c.
I won't, so I didn't buy that model, I opted for the 64GB flavor. I couldn't justify the 100 dollars, regardless of the fact that it meant quadrupling the storage. It doesn't matter to me if it 4x space if I'm not going to use that, and I'll have 100 dollars less in my bank account - no thank you
I went with the 256Gb version Because I saw a article that on the IPhone7 the lowest tier had slower storage... not many NAND chips in it.
I don't want to worry about storage 64 would probably have been enough but 256 almost certainly will be.
- Keynote presentations, some presentations are easily over 100megs
- video files for product demos in HD take up allot of space
- Pixelmator and Affinity photo take up a lot of space for adverts and imiges
- photos of customer applications, equipment, machinery etc
- Pages for letters, documents, short adverts, website blogs etc
- mail in itself is not small
- I-Zip files takes up a lot of space
- PDF office for editing high res PDFs, and brochures, flyers etc
- iBooks for storing all my product and service brochures
- iMessage is also not small as all our company internal messages go through this
- iMovie for editing movies and short videos that we use for customers
- Video to store all these videos in differmt formats
- Music
These are some of the bigger one for me, but I have all the standard most commonly used programs like, word, excel, Dropbox etc etc that take up a fair amount of space as well
And yet both of you have the same amount of storage on your iPad (if your signature is correct). Did you think you were throwing money away by going for the 256 GB iPad?
Was actually going to ask if this was worth the upgrade or not. I got the 64gb model and I've got a few more days to return it to the Apple store. For $100, 4x the storage is hard to ignore, but I use my iPad for mail, web browsing, some magazines and Angry Birds. I'd thought of using it for some photos (photography is a hobby of mine), but have iCloud storage as well. I've got my iPhone for music and various iPod's, so not sure if it's worth it...
I guess having the space and not needing it is better than needing it and not having it.
Some people have mentioned 128GB being the sweet spot and wished it were an option, but 256GB is only a $100 upgrade. It's not like 128GB would be a $50 upgrade. Pricing doesn't work linearly like that.
Anyway, for a Pro device, I wouldn't skimp and simply get 256GB. Having 64GB of memory (or 60GB of usable space) means by the time I get my apps loaded into it, there may only be 30-40GB of space remaining. That's not much for a pro machine. If you wanted to load a modest music or video collection loaded, you're already short on space!! Dropbox files? You're running on empty.
Anyway, for a Pro device, I wouldn't skimp and simply get 256GB. Having 64GB of memory (or 60GB of usable space) means by the time I get my apps loaded into it, there may only be 30-40GB of space remaining. That's not much for a pro machine. If you wanted to load a modest music or video collection loaded, you're already short on space!! Dropbox files? You're running on empty.
I will never believe any cloud storage, simple. So I always need maximum possible local storage on any device for 7/24 data access. Completely the opposite of the vision framed by those tech giants.
On the plane??? I remembered when I had 32 or 64GB Air 2 I transferred 4 or 5 HD movies before my trip to NYC from LAX and After done with movies, I deleted them to gain some spaces. Now I have wireless hard drive (500GB) but haven't done it at the plane yet because I wasn't sure if wireless hard drive is allowed there.
If you are like me and shoot photos and videos with an DSLR and like to edit them on the go with your iPad, you easily max out the 64GB. I do believe it all depends on your use case. For most people, that just install a couple of apps and use the iPad to play games, social media, mail, web browsing... 64GB will always be more than enough. I still use my iPhone 6 16GB and rarely need to offload pictures to save some space.