How can I access my external hard drive wirelessly from my laptop?

Question

My desktop crashed so I am migrated over to a laptop. I have wireless in my home so I am trying to be able to use to laptop in any room without any other connections (wireless printer, wireless mouse, etc)

The one issue I have is that my desktop had 2 external hard drives (USB) connected to them and I am trying to figure out the best way to treat these as external drives without having to plug them into the laptop directly.

My external hard drive is the Western Digital WDH1U5000N 500GB and my laptop is a Dell D620.

Solution

You should be able to use a NAS (Network Attached Storage) adapter to connect your USB drives to your router. This would make them part of your network, so that you can get to them from any device connected to the network (wired or wireless). Here is an example of a NAS adapter:

http://www.addonics.com/products/nasu2.php

Comments

[Sirex]

I know this might sound dumb. But wouldn't it be easier just to have a laptop docking station ?