Fire wire for backup

I'm purchasing an external hard drive for TM and hard drive purposes. Is it an advantage to choosing one that has a Fire Wire connection vs a regular USB Connection??

V.K. is, as usual, entirely correct.
You may do better with F/W 400 vs. USB, though, as many think it's much more reliable. If you do get a USB drive, get one with it's own power supply, as many people have trouble with those that take their power from the Mac via the USB cable.
The amount of power available on USB ports is limited, and if some other device like a printer wants some while the disk is busily doing a backup, the disk may not get enough momentarily and the backup may fail.

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