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I have wireless network at home. I am looking for something so that my laptop can save/retrieve files to/from a hard drive wirelessly.

Do I need to buy something like this (an external hard drive with Ethernet)?: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=587

Will this work for both windows/mac os/linux (os running on my laptop)? And is there such a product which support WiFi (instead of ethernet)?

Thank you.

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that's a pretty steep price, if i were you i'd look into a WLAN Router with NAS capability (e.g. the D-Link Xtreme N DIR-685).

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Some further explanation might be in order - Wikipedia is kind of technical, but you might be able to get something from it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage. I've never used it, but as I understand it, you have a device (maybe an HDD enclosure or otherwise something you could plug some external storage into) that can plug into your network (into your wireless router) and then access it as a hard drive from your computer, as I understand it. Apologies if you knew all that already... – Nathaniel Dec 4 '09 at 22:46
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The general solution to this is that you need a fileserver box on your home network. You can do this with a cheap used Windows box with either an ethernet cable to your router or a simple wireless ethernet card installed, and it can be your printer server as well. Or, you can buy a home NAS product that would have special features specifically for managing files.

If you can wait a couple more years, the research on wireless USB may finally come up with real products that would do what you are thinking.

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Ive asked it before... got pretty good answers...

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