Nas drive to airport?

I have a wireless linksys wrt54g router. This connects to an Airport Express which is hooked up to speakers through which I am able to play iTunes from my Powerbook wirelessly.
Hard drive is getting full. My question is this:
Can I buy a Nas drive to connect to my wireless router that I can use to store all my music to free up room on my laptop, and play music from it through AE?
Cheers
Brad

Looking at the Iomega 500GB Minimax HD the last user review reports that this works with Airport Extreme, even though the product is not advertised as NAS.
Can anyone confirm if this is true, and whether it would work with linksys wrt54g?

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Having searched through the forums here and using Google to cast a wider net.
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