new MacBook, no FireWire

[Kupe]

Great discussion guys- I'm learning lots of cool stuff.

Mostly as a matter of curiosity, does SD care whether a given drive is connected via Firewire or USB? For example, my external Maxtor drive has always been connected to my Intel iMac via Firewire. But the Maxtor does have a USB 2.0 port that I'd always simply ignored. If I were to disconnect it from my iMac's firewire port and connect it to a USB port, would SD see the drive same as normal for the purpose of future backups despite the fact that all previous backups had been over firewire?

And for that matter, if I cloned the drive over Firewire but later tried to boot over USB, would that work? (assuming of course GPT partition, which it is.)

I guess my thinking here is that we are probably seeing the end-of-the line for Firewire, at least in future consumer Macs, so I'm trying to get myself (reluctantly) more knowledgable on USB.

Thanks!

Kupe