New iPad and iTunes that has been consolidated onto an external HD

I have two iMacs. One of them just had a HD crash and burn. I bought it three to four years ago. This was the main computer that I used to play my iTunes music, etc. Surprisingly Apple covered all costs in replacing the HD (...I love Steve Jobs).... Anyways, I now have a computer with a new HD. I did not want to recover data from the old iMac's HD (too expensive to do and anyways, .... I have another iMac that had all email stuff anyway.) Years before it crashed I consolidated all iTunes data to a Lacie external HD. Now I have a new iPad. I am JUST using this newly refurbished HD iMac for the first time back from Simply Computing Mac/Apple store since repair. I would like all my data (or some of it anyway) to be put onto the iPad that i purchased. Here is my question: does an iPad able to get the data that is on the Lacie external HD so I can have my music, videos, etc on the iPad? (Note: I have yet to consolidate the iTunes library again since the nw HD means that I essentially have a new "brain" in my iMac).

Sorry, yes iTunes on your computer.
When I updated my iPad 3 and iPod Touch 4th generation to iOS 6 a few months back, I was able to update the iPad effortlessly over WiFi. but I kept getting error messages when trying to update the iPod over WiFi, so I used iTunes on my MacBook Pro.
Connect the iPad to the computer, launch iTunes. Select the iPad under the devices heading on the left, click on the Summary tab and then click on Check for Update
If you are using iTunes 11, go to View>Show Sidebar at the top - so the sidebar is visible.

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