Some questions before purchasing a Time Machine

I'm thinking about buying a Time Machine as opposed to buying an NAS Hard Drive and continuing with my wireless router (no problems with router, but the less devices the better).
Currently I have a two year old 320gb USB hard drive on which I keep my iTunes library and my rather large iPhoto library. The music and photographs are the only things of real value on my computer and I store them externally as I feel the MBP runs better with less data on the hard drive.
I have a number of questions which will influence what I do:
1) If I connect the current hard drive to the Time Capsule, will time machine back it up?
2) Could I use the Time Capsule as a regular wireless hard drive, and use the external hard drive (connected to the TC) as my time machine device? If this was the case, could the hard drive be used to back up the TC to which it is attached?
3) Does 300gb in original files = 300gb on the TC or is there some form of compression?

"1) If I connect the current hard drive to the Time Capsule, will time machine back it up?"
No, the drive needs to be connected to your MAC.
"2) Could I use the Time Capsule as a regular wireless hard drive, and use the external hard drive (connected to the TC) as my time machine device? "
yes, but, it needs to be formated correctly, which I think is the Mac extended journaled format. For example, fat32 would not work. you would use the airport utility to enable a share, which can be vewied by the mac clients using time machine preferences, and you would select the additional share instead of the default one.
"If this was the case, could the hard drive be used to back up the TC to which it is attached?"
The TC can use external drives as a place to archive backups on the internal drive. But a 320 gb drive would not be best for this. Drive prices are drpping, if you want this feature, I would buy a new drive and use that.

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