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Will this wireless hard drive work independantly of a pc or laptop

I saw this product which is a wireless external hard drive

http://www.bluebuy.co.uk/product_info.php/shop/External_Storage_Media/cPath/9_909/products_id/2025

Does this mean once I have configured it for networking that I can put it in a locked cupboard or under my bed and still backup to it based on having sufficient wireless ranges?

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Aura

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The only way I would like wireless is because if there was a robbery or something, then I still have a backup of data that is not attached

in the past I have had a second IDE drive to backup data and then a power surge has caused the main and backup drives to die.

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How much is the size of the data that needs backup???
How much is the distance between the computer and this device?
You can use this by running a scheduled backup at Night.

and again if the connection is not consistence, you will have problems witht he corupted data or incomplete backup job.
it has it pros. and cons.
take a calculated risk.
evaluate all the variables in the environement.

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naren

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Just be aware how much you want to backup - 54Mb wireless is really around 30Mb or so throughput. A few Gigs will take a while.

auraorange

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Thanks for the feedback

I am still debating on my backup method now as my backup is a minimum of 5gb through to 25gb if I backup my music as well, That is excluding my operating system and programs....