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How do I connect an external hard drive to ipad4

You can google the Seagate GoFlex which is a hard drive that has a wireless transmitter you can use to stream content from your drive to your iPad. There's also the WiDrive which is another wireless hard drive
In a lot of cases you do need to research deep. The iPad does not have a traditional file manager like computers, so the functionality of external or extra drives is very limited, often limited to whatever the app associated with the drive allows.
it's not a case of just plugging it in and having hundreds of gigs at your disposal to read from and write to at will.

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