Sharing a disk on a mixed network

I'm contemplating getting an Airport Extreme N in larger part so that I can share a hard drive over my network. The network is mixed. There are two PCs, one which has a wireless card, probably 802.11g and one that's wired, two Macs that will ony support 802.11g, one Mac that is hard wired to the network and one Mac that will support 802.11n.
So, my question, which was not answered by any of the support documents I located is Will I be able to share a hard disk in this kind of set up?
I believe that my household (yeah, this is my house) now has a greater number of computers than people.

Based on your hardware descriptions, the new 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) should be able to accomodate all of your equipment. It's three LAN ports would be used for the wired PC & Mac (with one left over), and it's wireless, running in 802.11n (b/g-compatible mode) should handle the mix of wireless clients. The one thing to note for wireless to operate at pure 802.11n speeds, ALL wireless devices must be 802.11n.
Similiarly, both Windows & Macs can access USB-attached hard drives that are formatted in either HFS+ or FAT16/32. (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305038 & http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/sharing.html)

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