LaCie 160GB USB drive

Hi Guys
Just a quick question - I bought this at the store with my Mac as it was on offer (but didn't check whether it was firewire... oops!)
Wanted to ask whether I can back up from this the same way, and with the same ease as I would a FW drive? I ask as I want to upgrade the HD soon to whatever the largest available is, and I want to make sure that I can use SuperDuper to boot ok from this external drive and clone to the new drive.
I've been backing up without any issues.
Will this be ok for what I want it for?
Cheers!

Thanks mate - just the reassurance I needed! Would hate to have been backing up religiously each week (and taking an hour each time as I'm yet to buy the full SuperDuper version!) only for it to be pointless when I upgrade drives.
Have some points, or whatever you get when I mark it as solved

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