That's the question - if the drive is mapped from the computer it can be clobbered by a virus or ransomware, but to use it as backup it's usually incremental and I don't want to keep turning it on and off. Having it out of the main area is to protect it from theft or harm to the desktop, a separate issue (the house was burglarized in 2005 when I was at work; I now have steel security doors, two dogs, and am home most of the time.)

Joe, your three units are WiFi or wired, or you have a choice? And it's basically a base and repeaters for the signal, isn't it? Who knows what will be blocked or banned or tariffed in this day and age. The Chinese manufacturers have some workarounds that keep a lot of their goods off the Trump radar.