Calling all computer geeks! Looking for advice!

I've run out of space on my dinky laptop hard drive, and I'm looking to buy some sort of external hard drive. I know there are some network enabled mass storage options these days, but I don't even know where to start. I really like the idea of being able to access information from more than one computer and dropping the hard drives next to my router.

Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!




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