Ability to make external wireless?

I have a macbook pro and I have all my iTunes music on an external hard drive so as not to use up all my macbook storage space. However, it kind of defeats the point of having a labtop if I have to keep it wired down all the time. If I get an airport express, can I plug in the hard drive to the USB port to make it wireless, or does that only work for wireless printing?

I have heard mixed reviews about the airport extreem and the time capsule. From my research I've found that they tend to go belly-up after 2 months. However I've only heard good things about the older version of the airport extreem (the one shaped like a flying saucer)
What are the suggestions on that?

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I've noticed that when Time Machine runs, that a folder called Data at /Volumes/ appears while Time Machine is trying to back up. I think it's making the sparsebundle to transfer to the Time Capsule.
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Hello,
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If we told you that....you might possibly be able to configure the TC to join your network using wireless.....and if it was successful.....and you found out that backups were going to take twice as long as normal wireless.....and that there was twice as much chance of an error occuring during a backup.....and this is the worst possible way that you could configure the TC.....
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