[mattmarshall]

heloo

is there any product out there that sort of combines airport express and an external hard drive? i have an old powerbook, and i keep all my mp3's and stuff on a firewire drive. this keeps me kind of tethered, so i have can't really benefit from airport epress.

i would love it if i could plug my firewire drive into airport express, setting up a file-server, in a sense.

does anything do this?

- matt

[sworthy]

I don't believe this is possible, though it would be cool

[iPoder]

This is closest to what you want. A wireless network router with USB 2.0 connector to an external disk drive or a flash memory drive. (Don't believe it supports Mac though)

http://www.linksys.com/products/prod...3&prid=640

I don't believe anyone making a firewire model either.

[CatOne]

Originally posted by mattmarshall:
heloo

is there any product out there that sort of combines airport express and an external hard drive? i have an old powerbook, and i keep all my mp3's and stuff on a firewire drive. this keeps me kind of tethered, so i have can't really benefit from airport epress.

i would love it if i could plug my firewire drive into airport express, setting up a file-server, in a sense.

does anything do this?

- matt

What you want is an 802.11 NAS device (network attached storage).

I'd have to dig, but I bet Linksys or D-Link might sell something like this. Search for "wireless NAS" in Google and I'll be you can find something like this.

You'd probably want to be quite careful to make sure your network is encrypted. Note the prices on this will probably be all over the map... from say $400 at the consumer level to far over $1K for devices intended to be used by companies. I see Iomega did a press release -- never investigated any of the products.

Also be aware sharing will most likely be over Samba -- Windows file sharing protocol. No big deal, OS X works with it great, but you wouldn't want to use it with forked files.

[israces]

Looking at these myself:

Tritton NAS

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Axentra