Can you buy firewire cable for usb external?

i recently bought an Iomega external HDD for time machine, it's a usb based drive, i really regret it because it's so slow. Could i just buy a firewire cable and use it on the drive so it can go faster?

I've got four external FireWire 800 drives attached to my G5 tower. I installed a second FireWire PCI Express Card on the G5. They pretty much rip over the USB 2.0 I had before.
Only comment I have is that if you use Time Machine and a FireWire 800 drive, make sure that it is connected directly to a Mac FireWire 800 port and not daisy chained to any other device. If it is daisy chained, you may get one of two issues - a very very very slow initial backup with a potential failure to backup. I learned the hard way and when I direct connected my backup drive to its own port, it cut the initial backup time by 75 percent and did not fail.
I use my Mac for my work and have a lot of applications and data so it took about five hours to run the initial back up. Without the direct connect, it ran for about 26 hours and failed near the end of the attempt.
Just one man's experience, hope this helps.

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