Looking for a wireless hard disk

[jbaccrington]

Hi

I'm looking for a wireless hard disk, about 1TB which I can connect to a power socket. Don't want to be recharging the wireless HDD all the time, so must be able to leave it connected to the mains power.

Must have a on/off button.

I want to store music/photos/other files on the HDD. And use my laptop to access my files.

Thanks

Jonathan

 

[rpstewart]

Surely all you need is a NAS connected to your wireless router? Or does it need to be portable?

 

[Semple]

As above, by the sounds of your description you basically want to be able to access files from within your home without having to plug extra hard drives in.

Edit: I seem to remember seeing a prototype of a wireless hard-drive, but wasn't aware they were now being sold, i dread to think of the cost of one though.

 

[Deleted member 138126]

Do you mean something like this?

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1140

It doesn't have its own wifi, but you plug into your router and access it from the laptop via the router's wifi.

 

[jbaccrington]

Is there a power on/off switch on the WD 1TB My Cloud Personal Cloud Storage?

 

[Deleted member 138126]

Is there a power on/off switch on the WD 1TB My Cloud Personal Cloud Storage?

Hard to tell from the pics. There isn't one around the back, but I wonder if the big silver thing on the front is a power button? I don't actually own one. You could always just disconnect the power lead.

 

[Dervious]

Is there a power on/off switch on the WD 1TB My Cloud Personal Cloud Storage?

I have the older(?) MyBook Live 2TB NAS. It has no power switch.

Another bit of advice, you best get a gigabit router if you want reasonable transfer speeds (unless the My Cloud has been improved). And you need to hard wire it to the router to obtain decent speeds.