Maxtor, Linksys To Unveil Wireless Hard Drive

15 Jun, 2004 at 11:17am ET Article published in Tech

If hard-drive maker Maxtor and networking company Linksys have their way, your external hard drive is about to become very external.

On Tuesday, the companies plan to announce a partnership featuring a $99 Linksys device designed to allow an external hard drive to connect to a wireless router, letting PCs tap into the storage and share files without any physical link to the drive.

I can see most home users leaving the security settings off and wondering where all their data went. -KF

Source: CNet

Comments

15 Jun 2004 ~ 2:47pm Gobbles I can see most users leaving security off and wondering how their drive got filled with warez and porn...

Gobbles
15 Jun 2004 ~ 3:04pm Camman I can see myself filling my buddies wireless harddrive with warez and porn
15 Jun 2004 ~ 3:09pm TheBaron agree
15 Jun 2004 ~ 3:38pm primesuspect Great. Another way to lose data.
15 Jun 2004 ~ 4:15pm Thrax OMG. This is so <i>cool</i>.