Using firewire with a new external backup

I have an iMac5,1 which I believe I purchased in 2007, and I am running 10.6.8. My iMac has Firewire 400 ports as well as USB 2.0 ports. I currently have a Firewire Fantom backup which I would like to replace because it is getting old and is not big enough for me to use Time Machine, which I would like to set up.
I see that all the new external harddrives are coming out with USB 3.0.
Is there an advantage to staying with firewire over USB?
Is it going to be difficult for me to find a 1TB external drive which uses firewire?
I have a 250GB harddrive which I used to think was huge, but I am currently using less than 50 GB and I see no need to upgrade.
Thank you for any help you can give me.

FireWire is much faster than USB, and as your Mac hasn't got USB 3.0 ports, you should use it. However, you will have to use a FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 cable, because most of the FireWire external drives that are sold now have only FireWire 800 instead of 400.
I have a 1 TB external drive with FireWire, a LaCie external hard drive like this one > http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10554 However, LaCie isn't selling the 1 TB version anymore

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