Ideal backup for 2 macs? How to integrate a NAS with AEBS?

Hello together,
I do have the following setup at home: a Mac Mini to serve my music, pictures and stuff and an MacBook Air for the rest. All that is connected with an AirPort Extreme.
So far things were good: I had an external drive that I used with TimeMachine to backup to the external drive of the MacMini (which had two partitions). Now the drive broke down and I'm thinking of a way to accomplish backup in future.
My options are:
- Buy an external drive and connect it to the Mac Mini: I would prefer to not do that. The external drive just broke and I don't want to go through that again. Also, in this case the backup from the MacBook Air only works if the Mac Mini is on.
- Buy an external drive and connect it to the AEBS via USB: Nice, I can backup whenever I want. Still the issue of a single drive that could break down any time
- Buy a NAS with a raid 1 or 5 and have it in the network: Love the idea of a NAS with RAID. But not sure if NAS is supported by TimeMachine (is that one resolved? Not keen on spending a lot of money to have an "unsupported" solution in the end)
- Buy a NAS with RAID and have it connected as USB drive to my AEBS (is this solution "more supported" than the pure NAS solution? (I tried to connect a drive to the AEBS and it showed up with no extra tricks performed in the Mac Mini as a "supported" drive in the TimeMachine preferences.
So, any ideas? What do you guys do? Any advice?
Just a word on TimeCapsulate: I think it is a bit too insecure since it doesn't have RAID and also it seems to be unnecessary since I do have the AEBS.

I have a NAS for photos and music that I use as a server for sharing with my two macs. I used GlobalSan software (free to download) to set up a iscsi on my qnap nas. TIme machine works on it. Its not difficult to do and I not an IT person.

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