AEBS and external powered hard drive

I am contemplating purchasing an AEBS and then attach my current "powered" Lacie 1TB drive via USB to the AEBS.
I am seeking suggestions on how best to save my iTunes and photos (currently stored on my MacBook Pro Hard Drive) separate from Time Machine backups...is this doable? Any suggestions?
Thanks, in advance.

Are you currently using Time Machine to back up to that Lacie drive? If so, you should be aware that Time Machine organizes backups differently on a network disk than on a locally-mounted disk. Also, Apple doesn't support Time Machine to a disk connected to an AEBS. See this Web page for details. Finally, if you migrate your iTunes and photo libraries to a network disk, if you don't take extra steps, you'll have no backups of those things, which means that if the network disk fails or becomes corrupt, you'll lose all that.

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Sorry in advance if this has been asked already - I scrolled down to see but could'nt find it......
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