Apple TV as wireless hard drive?

This is probably a stupid question, but is it possible to use Apple TV as a wireless hard drive for non-iTunes related files? I'd like to have another back-up for some of my documents, but don't have enough to justify buying time capsule. Is there a way to use Apple TV for all of the media, but have my laptop recognize it as a hard drive and let me store other files on it too?

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Your best option is to get yourself an external drive and attach it to your laptops for carrying out your back ups. Don't be put off by having to do this, back ups are essential, you'd be surprised how often we need to try to help people who haven't backed anything up and have suffered some kind of problems - of course we can't help people when this happens.

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