Hey guys it’s Lance at s Mac Sound Solutions and today I'm going to talk about transfer
speeds getting files on and off your iPad. I have been testing the iPad with different
devices and the transfer speeds have varied wildly sometimes it's running at like USB
2 speeds sometimes it's slower than that and sometimes it's super fast but it depends on
what device you're connecting to the iPad what cable and what hub it's just very inconsistent
so I'm going to show you the fastest speeds I have gotten and what I used okay so first
up is Apple's USB CD USB adapter this is a USB 3.1 Gen 1 device so I connected a portable
USB 3 spinning hard drive not an SSD it was able to copy a one gig file in 10 seconds
to do the iPad from the hard drive but copying that same one gig file back to the hard drive
took a minute and 20 seconds. okay so next up are used my sd card reader which is also
USB 3.0 connected it to the Apple dongle and was able to transfer one gig file in 10 seconds
but the transfer the same one gig file back to the sdcard it took three minutes and 50
seconds and these are high-speed SDXC cards rated about 150 megs a second sd cards usually
have slower rate speeds need to read speeds but for instance I copied the same one gig
video file from my Mac Pro to the sd card through my card reader and it got there in
:13 so next up I use my only and digital USB 3.0 SSD drive and connected that to the Apple
dongle. Apple says some USB accessories are not supported and that is true with my portable
SSD drive I tried connecting data the dongle and it just will not mount on the iPad. So
there's an issue there I also tried using the power supply for the hard drive at that
maybe wasn't good enough power but it still wouldn't mount so here is where it starts
to get interesting and you're probably like thank God lance you saying something that's
interesting but really the next device I used we are saying goodbye to Apple's dongle and
we're moving onto an Amazon basics data cable which is USB C two USB 3.1 gen 2 so with this
cable I'm going to connect my iPad directly to my Macbook Pro and basically you can use
your Macbook Pro as a hub I can connect my external USB three drive or I can transfer
files directly to my iPad Pro I have two internal SSDs in my MacBook Pro it's a two thousand
and twelve model I do not have one of the recent MacBook pros that has USB C to test
which is unfortunate but you guys can do the testing yourself and leave some results that
would be great. So now with the iPad connected directly to the MacBook Pro it took 13 seconds
to transfer a file from the MacBook Pro to the iPad and keep in mind this is now in esses
D that were transferring over USB 3.0 and here's the clincher when I transfer from the
iPad to the ST on my MacBook Pro it does it in 10 seconds so keep in mind this is the
best speed we've seen so far but it should be faster and the other really weird thing
is when I connect the iPad pro to my Mac Pro with the same Amazon cable first off it's
not charging the iPad but secondly it takes 30 seconds to transfer the same one gig file
on and off the iPad so to me that points to that the iPad is not getting enough power
to operate a USB three speeds and it's dropping down to USB two I guess you'll her mac pros
issue is power and so you would think with any modern Mac with USB see your USB three
ports you would get that same 10 seconds per gig transfer speed so now we're going to move
on to USB see hubs and this is where gets very interesting cause I tried several hubs
in the last one I tried got the fastest speeds but only copying files to the iPad Pro bowl
when I first tried it out it blew my mind this in a text hub model HP 9003 was was able
to transfer the one gig video file from my SSD for stuff he could mount the SSD which
the Apple dongle could not do and I was not giving it auxiliary power secondly it was
able to transfer the one gig file in 3 to 4 seconds that's right folks four seconds
250 MB per second so check it out I dragged over the video file from my SSD to the iPad
Pro and it happened in 3 to 4 seconds so obviously the next thing to do is to copy that file
back to the SSD from the iPad and I had very high hopes that would be exactly or close
to the same speed but but no it took the dreaded 30 seconds which also blows my mind because
you finally get a device that transfers faster than any other way to the iPad but getting
the files off the iPad reverts back to USB two speeds obviously there's something amiss
with the iPad Pro transfer speeds I mean what the $^* Apple so I did call Apple's customer
support and after about 40 minutes I finally got higher up adviser on the phone but in
the long run they did not have an answer they said your connecting it to to other devices
then Apple devices therefore we can't tell you nor could they tell me the actual reading
write speeds of the drive inside the iPad Pro which is a NAND flash drive very small
little chip So I I looked around to see if there was an app that could show me the read
write speeds of the internal storage on the iPad Pro and the only app I found was performance
test which is an older app but it did seem to show what the right speeds were and it
says 837 and 37 MB per second well we're not even getting close to that so I've only been
doing one gig transfers so now I want to test hundred gigs how long does it take to copy
hundred gigs onto the iPad and how long does it take to get it off the iPad I did this
with the Inatek hub and using my SSD and I did it with my MacBook Pro using the Amazon
cable so let's look at the Amazon cable hooked up directly to the MacBook Pro first so I
have 100 gig folder with audio and video files name Gary Clark Jr cause it was a showy shot
of him out in LA and he came in right at the hundred gig mark which was convenient and
so I was able to use istat on this because it shows transfer rates granted it's only
showing the transfer rate from the SSD the iPad does not show up at any speed test to
try and run the iPad just isn't accessible but your hard drives are so it's showing us
the right speed and the read speeds when I did the hundred gig transfers so basically
we're getting close to hundred megs per second when reading and writing to the iPad or from
the iPad using the Amazon cable to the SSD via the MacBook Pro and the times came in
very similar hundred gigs to the MacBook Pro from the iPad took 17 minutes and the hundred
gigs from the MacBook Pro to the iPad took 18 minutes so next up is the Inatek hub and
we know theoretically this is going to be faster then transferring 100 gigs onto the
iPad Pro with the Amazon cable and sure enough it is it took nine minutes and 47 seconds
to transfer from the SSD to the iPad Pro D 100 gigs so one last thing I want to show
you is I decided to try duplicating the hundred gig file on the iPad itself so it's basically
reading and writing the file to itself and it did it in seconds of the SSD couldn't even
come close it took minutes and that's basically 10 gigs per second right speed looking back
at the speed test we got it said 837 MB per second so that is actually really close to
what we saw duplicating hundred gigs so it looks like there's potential to write files
much faster to the iPad than what we're getting so the elephant in the room that most YouTube
or should did reviews don't seem to talk about is the transfer speeds to and from the iPad
Pro we've got a usb c connection we've got a fast internal drive we should be able to
transfer files on and off the iPad Pro at 500 600 MB per second that is what we should
be seeing but we're not so hopefully Apple can fix this in the software update although
there's been several since iPad OS came out and it hasn't changed maybe it's strictly
hardware related depending on what device you have connected your iPad but I'm hoping
this will get fixed because it's an iPad Pro it's not a consumer model we can not have
to sit around for hours waiting to transfer 500 gigs on and off the iPad when it should
take minutes okay minutes Ok so that basically sums it up I have not found the perfect device
to transfer on and off the iPad I have figured out quite a lot and the fastest device so
far to get files on the iPad is the Inatek hub and the fastest way to get files off the
iPad is the Amazon cable to the MacBook Pro if anybody else out there has a better scenario
happening with a different hub and getting great speeds please posted here so we can
all improve our transfer speeds to and from the iPad Pro with iPadOS 13.3.1 thanks for watching
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