A few months back I wrote an article about how the Aple iPad can be used by photographers. The biggest disadvantage of the iPad has always been it’s limited internal storage and inability to connect external drives for additional storage. Today though, Sanho has announced a new version of their excellent Hyperdrive UDMA (which I reviewed last year) which can successfully be used as an external drive on the iPad when connected via the camera connection kit.
This is some pretty huge news for photographers that want to travel with the absolute minimum of gear. You can download your images from your CF or SD card directly into the Hyperdrive via its own memory card slots, and then transfer them over to the iPad if you need to do anything more with them. Make small edits, upload to a blog or FTP to a client for example. It also allows you to carry your full music or movie collection with you for entertainment on the road. It would seem that files cannot be played or edited from the Hyperdrive, instead they must be transferred over to the iPad first, but this is a big step in the right direction! Full press release after the break if you want all the details!
