128gb data on iPad?

[fitnessmouse]

That sounds awesome! I'm looking at them on amazon, do you mind sharing what kind you have?

I have the Seagate wireless plus 1TB

 

[DawnM]

Wow. These are close to $200 each. I was thinking more along the lines of $80-$100.

 

[DawnM]

Wow. These are close to $200 each. I was thinking more along the lines of $80-$100.

 

[dawnhaze]

A 1TB hard drive that connects to a computer with a cable can be in the $80-100 range these days. The wireless hardware is going to add to the price. I use the Seagate GoFlex Satellite, which is the older model of the Wireless Plus. A 500GB model is $119 on Amazon right now, versus the $179 Wireless Plus. I'd drop the extra $60 for double the storage if I was buying it today, since I filled up the 500GB in less than a year.

The downside to these is that they're one more battery that can go dead, so I do like to store a little content on my devices even when using one. I have powered mine from an external battery pack on a long train ride when the power outlet at my seat didn't work, though.

 

[DawnM]

Honestly, I don't think I would fill up a 500gb. What do you fill it up with?

We already have an external HD for our computers (an Apple Airport/Time Capsule) so I don't need another one for that purpose.

This would only be for things like trips and backing up ipads/iphones/tablets to keep apps, movies, photos and such on.

Dawn

A 1TB hard drive that connects to a computer with a cable can be in the $80-100 range these days. The wireless hardware is going to add to the price. I use the Seagate GoFlex Satellite, which is the older model of the Wireless Plus. A 500GB model is $119 on Amazon right now, versus the $179 Wireless Plus. I'd drop the extra $60 for double the storage if I was buying it today, since I filled up the 500GB in less than a year.

The downside to these is that they're one more battery that can go dead, so I do like to store a little content on my devices even when using one. I have powered mine from an external battery pack on a long train ride when the power outlet at my seat didn't work, though.

 

[dawnhaze]

Honestly, I don't think I would fill up a 500gb. What do you fill it up with?

We already have an external HD for our computers (an Apple Airport/Time Capsule) so I don't need another one for that purpose.

This would only be for things like trips and backing up ipads/iphones/tablets to keep apps, movies, photos and such on.

I don't use it for computer storage either - I have a 3TB backup drive and a 2TB media drive connected to my desktop for that. 500GB would get me nowhere.

Looking at the contents of the drive right now, I have about 150 feature-length movies on it and probably at least 50 seasons of various TV shows. (Edit: The TV show estimate is probably low because just my Star Trek collection comes to like, 28 seasons, lol.) For me, the whole purpose of the drive is to have access to an extended collection of video content when I don't have an internet connection capable of watching Netflix/Hulu/Amazon.

Important thing to note: Video files must be in a format that iOS can play natively. This means no avi files, no mkv files. MP4 or M4V work the best. You can work around this but it requires fiddling with extra apps, and it's easier, IMO, to just use something like Handbrake to convert the files on your computer.

I've never used it to back up photos from an iOS device, but I just tried it and apparently you can, but it seems to be a one-by-one process, which seems unintuitive and kind of annoying. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, haha. You won't be able to back up apps on it, but I think I'm parsing your last sentence incorrectly anyway.

 

[DawnM]

Oh great. I have NO idea what those video file names mean.......

Right now we have all of our videos on either iTunes or Vudu. The nice thing about both of those is that you can download a few and undownlaod a few very easily.

Dawn

I don't use it for computer storage either - I have a 3TB backup drive and a 2TB media drive connected to my desktop for that. 500GB would get me nowhere.

Looking at the contents of the drive right now, I have about 150 feature-length movies on it and probably at least 50 seasons of various TV shows. (Edit: The TV show estimate is probably low because just my Star Trek collection comes to like, 28 seasons, lol.) For me, the whole purpose of the drive is to have access to an extended collection of video content when I don't have an internet connection capable of watching Netflix/Hulu/Amazon.

Important thing to note: Video files must be in a format that iOS can play natively. This means no avi files, no mkv files. MP4 or M4V work the best. You can work around this but it requires fiddling with extra apps, and it's easier, IMO, to just use something like Handbrake to convert the files on your computer.

I've never used it to back up photos from an iOS device, but I just tried it and apparently you can, but it seems to be a one-by-one process, which seems unintuitive and kind of annoying. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, haha. You won't be able to back up apps on it, but I think I'm parsing your last sentence incorrectly anyway.