iPad flash drive?

[Rich..]

I didn't know flash drives were available for Apple products but came across these on eBay
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/i-Flash-D...hash=item4b0526e2ba:m:m27mbuoB5KNkg1k_wkfUIEw
It's such a pain converting movies to MP4 and syncing etc, plus my iPad is only 16gb, so 128gb for £16 with the ability to play movies from it etc is very appealing, has anyone used one of these?

 

[Darren S]

It is one of the silly aspects of Apple products - the lack of easily upgradeable space.

That said, it helps me maintain the device(s) free from clutter! Will be interesting if such a device you mention, works well?

 

[Knuckles]

The top review was as I expected tbh

Do any reviews of these pop up on google?

 

[Rich..]

I've ordered one anyway, I know there's a few bad reviews but for every bad one there's lots of positive ones. If you don't want to take the chance you can get the same thing from sandisk, but theirs is around £100 for the 128gb version, compared the £16 I paid for the same thing.

 

[Rich..]

This looks the same as the one on eBay

 

[Rich..]

It arrived today, the app it tells you download for it is pretty basic but apart from that it's all good, I'm well chuffed with it for 16 quid, bargain!

 

[Rich..]

Update.. turns out is was a pos after all, worked great until it went over about 20gb capacity then started playing up, long story short it's been returned and I've bought a 64gb Sandisk. Moral of the story.. buy cheap buy twice.

 

[Knuckles]

What's the crack with these then? Do they work like a convential external drive or is functionality/capacity/storage/transfer limited with it being Apple?

 

[Rich..]

Tbh all I've used it for so far is to move some photos off the iPad to make space, and I've put a load of movies on it which I can watch from the stick. Movies is main thing I wanted it for, it's such a pain having to convert everything and transfer via iTunes, with this you just simply drag them onto the stick then plug and play, also with this sandisk one being usb3 it transfers files in a fraction of the time it took with the cheapy china one.