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.

As the IEEE 1394 and USB 2.0 platforms gradually become the standard specifications on motherboards, chipset designers have begun including these interfaces in their products. Save my User ID and ...

San Jose, Calif. – Manufacturers of IEEE-1394 and Universal Serial Bus chips for computer and consumer electronics device connectivity are jockeying for position in their respective markets as updated ...

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The IEEE 1394, which is also called FireWire by Apple, is an interface standard for high-speed serial bus for connecting devices to a personal computer. Like USB, IEEE 1394 is a serial bus that uses ...