I am trying to decide on storage and back up for my computers

I am trying to decide how best to organize, store, and back up our computers. We have the following:
1 iMac
2 Macbook airs
1 old MacBook pro.
My wife uses her MacBook Air mostly for photos. I am thinking she will put the photos from her old MacBook pro (101 GB) on to an external hard drive and also store new photos that she edits and works with on her new MacBook Air on the same external hard drive.
Essentially all or our iTunes music library is on our iMac (39.5 GB) as well as another iPhoto library of 39.33 GB. I would like to store these on an external drive as well and not have them stored on the computer's HD.
Can you recommend how you might use one or more external hard drives to both keep the photos and music externally, and back up all the other things on the computers in our house?

Consider using a Time Capsule along with Apple's Time Machine software for your backups for all your Apple devices.
Time Capsule is described here. (There is also a 2TB version.)
http://store.apple.com/us/product/ME182LL/A/airport-time-capsule-3tb

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