External Storage Speed Test on Non-Pro iPad models with Lightning Port | iPad Air 3 (2019) By techwatchlist

We have here an iPad Air third generation, we're going to run some tests with external storage, which is natively supported since iOS 13. If you have newer iPad pros, that's great because they come with USB type-c out of the box, if you have other iPad models or even the latest iPhone 11 and 11 pro lineups, you can still take advantage of this feature, but you do have to take some extra steps. You may find cheap lightning adapters, but you have to be extra careful because not everything will work for data transfer like this one we have from new Macs. It is a micro USB to lightning port adapter. While it works well for charging, it doesn't do the job for data transfer. So I'll show you right here.

We try to put a memory card in an OTG card leader. If you try to put it in the iPad Air, it's not going to show you anything. It's not even better. Give you a warning, so this one is not recognized at all. So that's one thing to keep in mind when you're looking for a third party alternative online, there is an official adapter from Apple.

It goes by the name, lightning to USB 3 camera adapter, while its years towards direct use with camera, you can actually use it with several USB a device, so it says on the Box USB 3, but it will not give you any more numbers saying how much speed it can deliver. So that's what we're going to find out there are two parts in here: one is the USB, a port, and then the other is the Lightning port for faster charging. To also allow you to pump more power for USB devices that will require more power. First test would be with a USB 2.0 device. This one is a USB 2.0 card reader. The next one will be with a USB 3.0 card reader. Just more of the USB 3.0 capabilities will also test with the thumb drive. Lastly, will connect directly to this Sony, a6000 camera, so the memory card that we have is a SanDisk Ultra that tweets at about 80 MB per second.

So the reason why we have such a low speed memory card s, because the Sony a6000 I have and the other Sony a 5100 that I have has a maximum recording speed of 50 MB per second, which makes this already more than enough. We will go ahead and start the test with the USB 2.0 PI leader, where the SanDisk Ultra SD card, as you can see, once we attach the SD card content will be seen right here in the locations. The test file that we have is an eight-minute mpeg-4 video, which is about 729 MB on the timer. We have 50 seconds, so it took that much time to transfer from the SD card to the iPad. The next one is the USB 3.0 card reader. So we'll use the same memory card now.

You will see an error message saying this accessory requires too much power. So this is where the pass-through charging comes in once you plug in the lightning cable attached to a charger. It will let you use the USB 2.0 device, make sure that you're using the original iPad charger, because in my case, I tried to charge with an 11 Pro Max charger, and it didn't work, so now we'll go ahead and transfer that's 23 seconds on the clock. So it's a lot better than the first test. Now we connect directly with a camera.

So, as you can see, it got the same error message, but that's because the camera is off, so now we switch it on and there's no more message, and it will now show us the contents of the camera itself and SD card without having to attach the Lightning charger, so it might bury in your case, if you're using a different camera. So this one took about 48 seconds a bit closer to the USB 2.0 test. Lastly, we'll test to the USB 3 flash drive. This one is again showing us the accessory error message, so we will need to attach the charger. This one gave us about 29 seconds as expected, closer to the USB 3 card readers results so based on the results that we got.

We can assume that there is an advantage in using the USB 3 with the Apple adapter in my particular use case, of transferring data from my memory card to my iPad. This USB 3 card reader is the best choice for me. So we'll talk a little about the limitations of using external storage in iOS. Some applications will that you access the files directly within the app like iMovie. For example, I can't see the contents of the flash drive and once you select the file, it will be imported into your local storage.

So you have to keep that in mind. If you're trying to use it as an expansion to your 64 gig model, it will still need the space on the onboard memory. I also tried with another video editing, app called Kenya master, so in this case, I am still not able to see the files directly inside the app, so I think it's going to depend on each of the developers to adopt this new feature in iOS 13. So here in the settings were usually got to choose. Where you want the documents to be stored for each of the applications again, it will not be an option to store directly into the external storage.

So that's it I hope you found this test useful as much as I did. Thanks for watching.

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