SAN MATEO, Calif. — Makers of USB or IEEE 1394 devices are increasingly asking independent testing laboratories to help ease the laborious task of compliance testing. The turn to the labs comes as ...

The latest batch of chips and components for digital-consumer applications includes terrestrial-TV reception for mobile phones, an alphabetical keyboard that hides within the normal 12-digit phone ...

If you have a spare PCI slot or an external SAS port then it would be much better to go with something like this. Backup performance with USB is going to be terrible, but if you have to go Firewire ...

All other things being equal, go with the Seagate. The cache size will make no difference on a USB connected disk. A cheap IEEE-1394 controller will do wonders for speeding up I/O to this drive.