Recommended Ethernet NAS HDD to Connect to Airport Extreme Base Station?

My Airport Extreme is about a year old, maybe 14 months old. My DSL modem functions as a bridge to my Airport Extreme. My iMac is plugged via ethernet into the Airport Extreme. In the garage, my MacBook is plugged via ethernet into an Airport Express, which wirelessly extends my network. I have Boot Camp on the MacBook, and the MacBook works well whether I boot Mac OS or Vista. I also have a USB splitter (router? i.e. 5 USB ports) plugged via USB into the Airport Extreme. I have an older, somewhat small USB external HHD plugged via USB into the USB router (or whatever the splitter is called) attached to the Airport Extreme. EVERYTHING IS WORKING. I REPEAT, EVERYTHING IS WORKING.
The USB HDD connected to the Airport is running out of space. I suppose I could just buy a newer, bigger USB HDD and copy the contents of the old USB drive to the new one, leaving the new one connected via USB to the Airport Extreme. However, I am not impressed with the speed of wireless copying from the MacBook in the garage over the wireless network to the USB drive connected to the Airport Extreme in the house. Plus, I have one empty ethernet port on the back of the Airport Extreme. Therefore, I am thinking of connecting an ethernet HDD via ethernet cable to the Airport Extreme. I have no desire to use that ethernet HDD for Time Machine, so the incompatibility there is not a problem. I just want to have a large, fast, ethernet storage drive plugged into the Airport Extreme for general network use. Can anyone recommend a good, fast, reliable ethernet HDD that is "plug and play" when connected via ethernet to Airport Express, i.e. something that will just show up and be visible and work without hassles?
In the simplest terms, I want to replace the USB HDD connected to the Airport Extreme with an ethernet HDD connected to the Airport Extreme and have the ethernet HDD be equally accessible as the USB HDD currently is. I need recommendations for an ethernet HDD that will make it easy.
I have the latest Snow Leopard on both the iMac and the MacBook. (I understand that Vista under Boot Camp on the MacBook will require me to map a network drive, but I figured that out for the USB HDD and would not expect any special problems doing the same thing for an ethernet HDD connected to the Airport Extreme.)

There are any number of things that can cause this, and normally the only fix is to do a complete system reset.
Sometimes you can reset the Modem and it will fix it other times reset the Extreme will fix it, I find the fool proof way is to shut your computer off. Pull the power adapter from your ISP's Modem and from your Airport extreme.
Wait a minimum of 5 minutes and then in order.
Re connect the power adapter to the ISP's Modem and you must wait for it to re-acquire the signal and the lights (Normally 3 depending on the modem they furnished). This normally take a minute.
Next you plug in the power adapter to the Airport Extreme Base and again you must wait about a minute to acquire the signal.
Now you can restart your computers. You should be good.
Don
Remember this has to be done in the sequence mentioned above.

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