Any recommendations on hard drive?
For processing photographs.
It's 1am, I can't sleep and here's what I've found out.
Lightroom Cc will only work off locally stored files.
So each card I use is 128gb, worst case scenario a job can have 200gb of raws. Meaning I would ideally need a 512gb ipad pro £££
To get the changes to my pc lightroom I would need to be able to sync the working files, my 20gb cloud storage won't cut it. So 1Tb upgrade...
The external hdd serves as a back up really, and I no longer see much value for it in the workshop.
I got the 256gb, hopefully adobe cloud will alleviate the need for a lot of local storage.
A hard drive is only for storage, it is where software and user files live. For processing photographs, it is the processor (CPU) and the memory (RAM) that you need. Most later generation iPads have good CPUs and RAMs that are capable of processing photos so you should be fine using an iPad (regardless of how much storage space) for processing photos. The only problem is that it only depends on the App itself. Usually an iPad app will have limited function compared to a desktop based application software having far more tools.
You have to remember that the 256GB storage ("hard drive") is not really going to give you 256GB. An iPad storage will be taken up by the iOS, any installed apps you have, and any other data you have, but usually depending on what apps you have and how much data you used, vary like tens of GBs, still leaving you with hundred of GBs of storage space. (Let's just say purely as an example: Of a 256GB storage space, you could be using 30GB for iOS, installed apps, data for the other apps (ie contacts, email, etc.,) and still leave you with something like 220GB for photos.)
I have an iPad with 128GB and it used up around 44GB but that's mostly for iOS, about 50(ish) apps, about a hundred of books for the iBook app, and some photos, plus mostly user data. All of my main photos are mostly on my desktop computer and sync to Creative Cloud rather than all on the iPad.
And remember: You do not have to be limited to Adobe's Creative Cloud. Nobody says you have to use Brand-A's own cloud storage
or Brand-B's own. You can have any and as many of them. For example, I have Adobe's CC storage, Microsoft's OneDrive, Apple's iCloud, and Dropbox.
And enjoy your new iPad.