New ipad

[Samstu]

Hi 

looking to get an iPad 

As the most I’ll be doing on it is drawing and designing with affinity photo, do you think the 64gb size would be sufficient or would I need to go to the 256gb

any advice appreciated

[NotMyFault]

Noooo please not another Diskussion about RAM or Storage for Mac / iPad. We had this sooo many times before.

64 GB is enough if you have good Wifi or mobile Internet, and lots of free iCloud storage or other cloud storage like DropBox OneDrive etc.

Newer iPads allow to move files directly to USB disk, but doing this is a pain (slow, very large files >4Gb cannot be transferred via USB it always fails. I have one 4Gb video which I don't get transferred).

I personally would always choose 128 - 256 GB (I have done this since 2017 with 4 iPads purchased since then because 32 or 64 GB gets full every soon and I don't want the stress of deleting files when I'm traveling with bad internet connection which happened to me multiple times before and I hated every iPhone / iPad with only 32 GB because it went full every time I travelled)

 

[v_kyr]

22 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

Newer iPads allow to move files directly to USB disk, but doing this is a pain (slow, very large files >4Gb cannot be transferred via USB it always fails. I have one 4Gb video which I don't get transferred).

Check that the USB disk is not FAT32 formatted, since FAT32 cluster size is limited to 4GB-1, or exactly 4,294,967,295 bytes. So if a file is larger than that, the FAT32 file system can't store it, and an attempt to transfer large files to a FAT32 formatted drive gives an error. - Thus use exFAT formatted USB devices which then do support file sizes up to 128 PBytes.

 

[NotMyFault]

7 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Check that the USB disk is not FAT32 formatted, since FAT32 cluster size is limited to 4GB-1, or exactly 4,294,967,295 bytes. So if a file is larger than that, the FAT32 file system can't store it, and an attempt to transfer large files to a FAT32 formatted drive gives an error. - Thus use exFAT formatted USB devices which then do support file sizes up to 128 PBytes.

 

It failed whatever method i tried. I could play the video locally, or export in reduced resolution / size.

• Amazon Photo upload
• iCloud Upload 
• iTunes upload to Mac via USB cable (failed after some time, just lost connection)
• iTunes upload to Mac via Wifi
• Files App to connected USB SSD with exFat

i will try again now  with 1-2 years distance.