Wireless external hard drive for music


I am running Itunes on a Windows based laptop and see that there are some wireless external hard drives out there. Are these units good for storing music on? Whats the sound quality compared to a wired unit, any difference? It then runs thru a Benchmark Dac 1 USB if that matters any which is obviously wired.
Thanks, John
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Is there a hard drive that is wireless and will only talk to one system? That makes almost no sense except for some bizarre circumstances. Are you talking about a NAS drive? One that can serve data to multiple systems at a time. It will works just fine as long as your wireless connection can handle the required bit rate for your music streams. Usually you should have no trouble unless you have a weak signal, e.g. far from access point.
It must be a terminology issue. I can't find a wireless "disk" that is not NAS "network attached storage". A NAS device can handle one or more systems/connections at the same time. Using a NAS device is common and should work just fine as long as the wireless network bitrate is high enough. This is usually distance and signal strength related. Going Wireless-N would help a lot to prevent problems.