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Hi, I got a new iPad Pro which is working great and I am able to use a variety of external storage devices with it (flash drives, old fashioned spinny hard drives), but I got a 1T SanDisk Extreme SSD, which no matter how I format it, will not be recognized by the iPad.
The SSD works just fine with my iMac, but no matter what I try the iPad will not recognize that is even connected.
What am I missing here?
iPad Pro, iPadOS 14
Aha! I just tried a flash drive that worked fine yesterday and nothing. It finally occurred to me to try what I would have already done with my iMacs, and re-started. Now it recognizes the SSD. I even changed the format again from ExFat to OS Extended, and it actually works! The official Apple specs don't include OS Extended, but it does work!
Aha! I just tried a flash drive that worked fine yesterday and nothing. It finally occurred to me to try what I would have already done with my iMacs, and re-started. Now it recognizes the SSD. I even changed the format again from ExFat to OS Extended, and it actually works! The official Apple specs don't include OS Extended, but it does work!
Yes, I have tried APFS, Ex Fat and even OS Extended and it will not recognize the SSD drive at all. The weird part is it will recognize Fat 32, ExFat AND OS Extended formatted flash drives, and even an older Seagate mechanical drive formatted OS Extended (powers it up and everything, to my amazement!)! It seems to just be this particular SSD it doesn't like and I can't figure out why. SSD has been working fine with my iMac for weeks.
It needs to be formatted with a single partition using either Apple's APFS or HFS+ formats OR FAT32 or Ex Fat ( 64 -bit ).
NTFS is NOT an Apple supported format.
External SSD drive not recognized
