Keep your iPad Media on a Wi-Fi Hard Drive to Save Room for Retina Apps

All this talk lately about how apps optimized for the iPad's Retina Display are taking up all the precious storage real estate reminded me to tell you there's actually a solution to all of this. While it might sound inconvenient to store your media on a separate device, it might be time to consider it so that you don't have to forfeit downloading new apps to make room for media. Many manufacturers now offer Wi-Fi-enabled hard drives that stream to your iOS device, and it's worth the additional cost if you use your iPad primarily as an entertainment portal.

Our favorite Wi-Fi hard drive so far is the Seagate GoFlex Satellite, which offers 500GB of storage for your media, music, and documents. It's easier to simply transfer over data to the hard drive rather than waiting for iTunes to convert and import everything, and all you need to do is download the GoFlex media app for it to work. The GoFlex satellite also works with up to three devices at time. Seagate has also updated the firmware on the hard drive to allow users to simultaneously surf the web and stream to the iPad.

If you're looking for something more compact, the Kingston Wi-Drive offers up to 32GB of of flash storage and is only a third of the size of the GoFlex Satellite. Like Seagate's offering, the Wi-Drive streams to your iOS device via a free app, and also lets you surf the web as you're streaming to the iPad. 

Or, if your iPad stays at home most of the time, you could consider getting a Buffalo Cloudstor or some other kind of personal cloud device and accessing your media that way. Regardless, don't let your iPad's limited storage space get in the way of enjoying its remarkable capabilities.

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