hey what's up it's Jerad with State of Tech so say you have a hard drive a one
terabyte hard drive like I have right here and you have an iPad maybe it's the
new iPad pro 2018 11 inch or maybe it's the previous year iPad and you don't
want to spend all of that money to get that external storage you're thinking I
would love to have 512 or AG a terabyte of storage space on your iPad but you
don't want to spend that money because you already have a hard drive and we
already know that we can't plug this hard drive directly into an iPad so what
do you do well you use this cool device from ravpower to connect and then get
access to all of that storage and more let's take a look
all right so here we are with the iPad and we have our one terabyte Samsung
hard drive here and so this is gonna work regardless of what kind of hard
drive you have as long as it can of course be powered if it's a small hard
drive like this like a solid-state drive or a small bus powered which means it
will be powered by the cable itself here you could actually this is all you're
gonna need but if it's a bigger hard drive like one of the bigger external
hard drives you're actually still gonna need to plug that into its power source
but we're gonna be able to connect a very large hard drive to an iPad which
means you don't necessarily have to buy a large iPad I know that Apple wants you
to buy that one terabyte spend that almost two thousand dollars on an iPad
but you just simply don't have to do that especially if you already have a
hard drive all you're gonna need is this ravpower device here which is a an
expensive device well under $100 I picked this one up on Amazon for $65 and
what this device allows you to do is connect a variety of things to your iPad
and it's great because now we can connect any hard drives that we have to
our iPad so that we can copy over video content copy over photos whatever it is
stream stuff straight off of our hard drive it's amazing so beyond the
ravpower device you're actually going to need the rav file hub app now once you
turn this on and configure it you have to connect to the device it puts off its
own Wi-Fi network and it kind of acts as a router it's not a hotspot but it acts
as a router so what you can actually do is connect to this device and then you
can connect this device to a Ethernet cable such as this Ethernet cable right
here and it can actually provide a Wi-Fi connection to your device as well so
this would work really good say you were at a hotel room and they provide
internet through a cable but if you want Wi-Fi it's gonna cost you money
you bring this device you connect their cable to it and then it's going to
produce a Wi-Fi signal for all of your devices to connect to pretty awesome so
we've got our hard drive here we have our Rav power router here we're
gonna open up the file hub which connects to this device and we can
either just put our SD card from our camera in here or we can connect a
harddrive to it obviously the purpose of this video is to connect a harddrive to
it so we're going to do that so we're gonna grab our hard drive here and I'm
just simply going to plug it in and let's make some room for all this stuff
here scoot this over and you can see it's starting to connect and we should
see a notification pop up in the app here letting us know disk detected there
it is we have now 931 ish gigabytes of storage connected and how much is
available obviously I have a lot of stuff on this drive already so if I
click on file management I'm accessing this drive right now
that is amazing and just to show you how really how fast it is let's go into a
previous video project I did a video which is on the Canon a DD camera almost
three years later because it's almost three years old for ditch auto another
YouTube channel that I do and this video is 4 point 4 1 gigabytes and it is 4k I
wonder how long it'll start take to start playing it it's gonna load a
little bit of that video it's doing all this wirelessly keep in mind boom and
it's already playing it's already playing that video how cool is that
ok so of course we can stream content from a hard drive which is great for
those of you with a bunch of movies and stuff on a hard drive very easy to do
that what about copying content from a hard drive over to your iPad or vice
versa very simple to do that so let's go into one of these folders and let's just
see what we can find and copy over so we've got a whole bunch of like dmg s
and JPEGs so RAW images and JPEG images here so if we click around on some of
these they should open up and we can actually view them
as photo of my daughter right here and of course the entire app runs in
landscape mode but then of course when you look at a photo it opens it up in
portrait mode for whatever reason there we go
we got it back so you can see here it's like giving me previews and look how
fast Lee I could like toggle through these images and just scroll through
them it's amazing how fast this is Wireless this is Wireless folks so
there's a few things that we could do I could like hit play and it just does
like I think it does a slide show and so I'd probably want to go and and yeah
there we go so it's doing kind of a slideshow type of thing
interesting so we'll tap to stop that so if you want to copy a file off of the
hard drive the best way is just to go back to the files tap and hold here and
choose copy to and then choose iPad photos and then you can choose one of
your folders that you already have there on your internal storage or of course
you can create a new folder I'm just going to tap all photos and this is all
the photos that I have on my iPad already and I'll tap paste and it's
going to go ahead and download that image
and then I can go out into my Photos app and I should be able to see that image
up there it is right there as one of the most recent downloads so this is pretty
exciting be able being able to connect to a external hard drive and of course
even get content off of my iPad onto an external to free up additional space
let's go back to that Rav file hub app so you'll notice here that we have both
the file hub and the iPad here so if I go to iPad and tap on iPad photos and
then come and choose from one of my folders so we've got all of our
different images folders so say I go to all photos and I've got maybe like a
couple of photos that I have from earlier so we'll go to multi select and
choose just a couple of those maybe these are from dinner last night I'll go
ahead and hit copy to external storage it automatically connects to that hard
drive I can go into my photos folder on the hard drive and then click paste and
it's actually now copying images you can see the HEI see images off of my iPad
on to a hard drive so I mean how amazing is this now we don't have to go and buy
those extremely large iPads if we already have a hard drive it's very easy
to connect that hard drive using this $60 device so that we can connect and
have additional storage and not necessarily have to worry about spending
that premium price with Apple all right so I hope you like that video
we just added a terabyte of storage to an iPad without spending all that money
using a hard drive we already had and of course we can use that hard drive for so
many other things like plugging it into our PC or our laptop or our Mac or
whatever now we can use that storage for a lot of different things and not
necessarily have to go out and spend all that money on that iPad
so remember links are down in the description below to the ravpower device
that I was using and a couple of hard drives that I recommend as good
solutions for connecting to your iPad so make sure to check out those links and
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