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Wireless N external HDD or NAS?

Sabs212

Junior Member
I'd like to be able to back up data to a hard drive around 1.5TB in size. Ideally, I'd like a 3.5" HDD enclosure with wireless N built in, so I could simply plug in a power cable and hide the drive somewhere. It looks like several devices were made years back to either share a USB drive, or even enclosures, but nothing recent I could find. An Apple Time Capsule would do but it's more $ than I'm willing to spend.

As far as a device that can share a standard USB external drive, the Pogoplug Pro looks like it would work but I'd have to use two power cables and a USB cable. Alternatively, I have a D-Link DIR-655 which allows USB connection of a drive but I'd rather be able to keep the drive in a hidden location so I can back up to it have less to worry about in case of theft. The D-Link only allows one computer to connect at a time and I'd like to back up two computers.

Long story short, is there an inexpensive NAS or 3.5" HDD enclosure with Wireless N? Thanks in advance.
 
I don't know of one off hand, but I would recommend against it being wireless because the data will transfer from your computer to the wireless router to the backup drive, meaning two streams of data for the wireless router, meaning performance tanks. I already find it very painful to copy a few hundred MBs of data over wireless. I couldn't imagine myself backing up a few gigs over two wireless links.
 
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