I have a friend who does photo work and is interested in either the RAVPower Filehub Plus (WD-03) and the Western Digital My Passport Wifi Drive. Basically she wants to be able to transfer photos after a photo shoot to her iPad without a computer to do some culling and light photo editing. I have the WD Wifi Drive but I think she is leaning towards the RAVPower Drive. The questions I have is what is the difference between the two models and can the RavPower read RAW files and transfer to the iPad. Thanks for your help! I have a friend who does photo work and is interested in either the RAVPower Filehub Plus (WD-03) and the Western Digital My Passport Wifi Drive.
Basically she wants to be able to transfer photos after a photo shoot to her iPad without a computer to do some culling and light photo editing. I have the WD Wifi Drive but I think she is leaning towards the RAVPower Drive. The questions I have is what is the difference between the two models and can the RavPower read RAW files and transfer to the iPad. Thanks for your help! Click to expand.Yeah, definitely more flexible. I've connected the FileHub to my iPad Pro, Air 2, Samsung phone & tablet (Androids), and my Windows 10 laptop.
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The bridge function has been useful in hotels with limits on number of Internet connections and I've even had to use the Ethernet connectivity in a few older places (and also where hotel WiFi sucked but wired was also available). With photos, I usually just transfer direct from an inserted SD card to the connected HDD. Really a versatile device and I've used them for some time - this is version 3 and I started with version 1 (the WD01). Click to expand.Not clear to me but it sounds like you are trying set the FileHub up as a share point on a Mac? The FileHub without attached storage is really just a router and I think to be a share on the Mac, it has to have storage (the storage being the share).
I'm a Windows person so I'm coming from that perspective but did that make sense? As for the FileHub app, I use it on the iPad (or other device) mainly to control the settings of the FileHub. I also use it to transfer files from an SD card to a USB drive directly through the FileHub. You can do it with FileBrowser or FileExplorer but it appears that with those apps that the copy goes from the card, through the iPad, and back to the FileHub; using the FileHub app, the transfer is faster and appears to be all within the FileHub, direct from the card to the drive. Think I might get one of these.
Was considering the WD for being self contained and for the plex server, but the Ravpower is much cheaper and I have USB HDDs spare I can reuse With the Ravpower - couple of questions 1) can people play movies from it? Eg using infuse or VLC? I want something I can put videos on and stream directly as my kids only have 16GB iPad mini 2s so no space for downloading 2) can I backup SD cards from my camera to HDD without using an app - completely automatically on the Ravpower? 3) can you transfer photos from this into lightroom directly, or into the photo album (so lightroom can import from there)? Think I might get one of these. Was considering the WD for being self contained and for the plex server, but the Ravpower is much cheaper and I have USB HDDs spare I can reuse With the Ravpower - couple of questions 1) can people play movies from it?
Eg using infuse or VLC? I want something I can put videos on and stream directly as my kids only have 16GB iPad mini 2s so no space for downloading 2) can I backup SD cards from my camera to HDD without using an app - completely automatically on the Ravpower? 3) can you transfer photos from this into lightroom directly, or into the photo album (so lightroom can import from there)? Click to expand.Answering (2): Interesting results. I had two top-level folders on the SD card, each with multiple subfolders loaded with RAW & JPEG photos. I selected both and using the FileHub app on my iPad, I initiated a copy to an attached USB HDD.
Then I immediately switched off the WiFi on the iPad, disconnecting from the FileHub. Looking at the HDD, I could see that the first folder and its subfolders and all files were copied but the second folder (alphabetically) was not. I then tried the same experiment but just copied the second folder over – that entire copy continued and was completed after turning WiFi off. Bottom line, if you have a photo SD card with a DCIM folder, you can initiate the copy of that one folder (and its subfolders) and the copy will continue if you disconnect from the FileHub.
And on (3): Back to Lightroom: it was FileExplorer that I was able to use to save directly to the HDD on the FileHub. In Lightroom, I selected “Save to Files” and FileExplorer was an option; under FileExplorer, I could select FileHub and the HDD under it.