How to share a hard drive to a ipad

Hi looking for a little help and i think i can find it here . So i have a new ipad mini 16gb black 2 months old I love it exsept for the 16gb. I have alot of photos and i would like to put them on my ipad but to much . I was thinking could I could use my imac to share a 120gb usb external hard drive over my network and see all my photos on my ipad by connecting to that hard drive over my network iv done this on my macbook but what about a ipad ?
any answers help thanks

I started out with the same problem a few years back. And this led me to think wider.
I have a Mac Mini (as a blind server) hanging in my network. It has a 24/7 external HD (24/7 is important as all cheap HD are not made to run day in day out, I wonder even if the Lacie d2 Network2 is a 24/7 HD) attached to it that is accessible to the whole network.
My Mac Mini is also a print server (no need for expensive network cards in printers), fax for the whole network and answers the phone when nobody is there. If a fax or call is logged it emails it to the people who need to know about it.
On top of it, it holds al the Time machine backups for every machine in the network.
Good luck hope it helps.

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