Multiple users on airport extreme

To sum it up: Can or can't I connect the same disk from several computers at the same time if I use it with AirPort extreme?
What solution am I after?
I want to get rid of my bid desktop PC and only use my laptop. The problem is that I have 4hdd that I still want to be able to use. The first thing that stroke my mind was a nas (network-attached storage) but it takes up to mutch space that i dont have so therefor thats not a good idea. I trembled over a USB server device from Silex and also one from Belkin but these have the limitation of only alowing one user at the time on easch disk. I want to be able to access the same disk from several computers at the same time since we are more than one in my household...
So therefor I started to look at the airport extreme in order to see if thats a good selution. I can't find anything that eather confirm that I can connect to the same disk from many computers at the same time, but I don't finde anything that says that I can't eather...
If you have any better solution I'm all ears... =)
Thanks, Tommy

Yes, more than one user should be able to use the attached USB hard drives at a time.

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