Aiport Extreme / External Hard Drive

[myyours]

Hello all. Long time, first time.

Alongside my Macbook, I have an 500 GB external hard drive that I use mostly for music. The frustration has been brewing for awhile, and I'm finally fed up with having to unmount/unplug the external every time that I want to move my book around the apartment.

So, I'm thinking about getting an Airport Extreme base station and plugging the external drive into that, thus creating a little wireless kingdom. Obviously, I know that the transfer speeds won't be as quick as it is when plugged directly into the book.

Does anybody else have a setup like this? Will the performance setbacks outweigh the convenience? I'd imagine streaming video would create a much more noticeable lag than music files would. Will iTunes really suffer dramatically because of this setup, especially if we're talking about a 250 GB library?

My main music concerns aside, where else might I notice the biggest setbacks? There will obviously be times when I'll absolutely need to plug it in, but I'm hoping those would be few and far between.

Is there a better idea than this to make things more wireless?

Hey. Thanks!

 

[matperk]

I'm finally fed up with having to unmount/unplug the external every time that I want to move my book around the apartment.

You'd still have to unmount the drive every time you want to leave, you're just saving yourself the unplug time.

 

[myyours]

You'd still have to unmount the drive every time you want to leave, you're just saving yourself the unplug time.

One out of two ain't bad, I suppose.