Can I fit Bluetooth to an external hard drive?

[ashtreex]

Hi, I've got a big external hard drive to use for Timemachine backups. It has a USB2 socket and an Ethernet socket. To avoid yet another USB2 lead, is there a way I could plug a Bluetooth dongle into the hard drive? Or is there another wireless way to connect with it? My Mac is an aluminium iMac with OS 10.5.5.

Advice welcome?

 

[r.j.s]

And connect the BT to your computer, right?

Only if the USB port on the HD acts like a hub.

 

[ashtreex]

And connect the BT to your computer, right?

Only if the USB port on the HD acts like a hub.

So you can Bluetooth enable a computer with one of those dongles, but not a device? I'd suck it and see except the dongles do cost a bit!

 

[r.j.s]

So you can Bluetooth enable a computer with one of those dongles, but not a device? I'd suck it and see except the dongles do cost a bit!

If the device has an OS that you can configure, with the ability to handle BT, and make connections, and do everything else a computer does to process BT, then ... sure, you can enable a device with BT.


A hard drive cannot do any of that ...