Wireless N hard drive or NAS?

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Limp Gawd
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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.
 
how much data you want to backup at one time as wireless N is going to take some time if your talking gigs of data, even USB at maybe 35MB/s max speed will take hours and hours.

if your worried about theft do backup to disk, remove the disk and store in an alternate location, bank vault, other family members house, safe in your house or closet.
 
The initial backup would take a long time, which I'm prepared for, but I would do incremental backups after that.

I'd like to run the backups from 2 PC's daily but keep the drive somewhere other than attached to my PC. Right now I'm just connecting a USB drive and putting it in a safe, but I don't end up backing up as frequently as I should because it's not automated.
 
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