Basic questions about cloning a drive

I'm planning on installing a new Seagate 300GB SATA internal drive and have two basic questions:
1. Is it advisable to make the new drive my boot drive? Presumably the new drive will be faster than the original Maxtor SATA 160GB, right? (I'm not able to find the Maxtor's specs, as System Profiler causes a spinning beachball).
2. Why do so many people recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner or other software for cloning the contents of an old boot drive to the new drive? Can't I simply copy the files (via "drag and drop") to the new drive and bless the new drive as the startup drive using the Startup Disk system preference?
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

1. The new drive MAY be faster, depends on which drive you're buying. I think most of the Seagates have an 8mb cache. Which your original Maxtor also more than likely has. Chances are you won't notice any speed boost.
2. Drag and drop won't work. Cloning is the way to go to insure that everything get's copied to the new drive. I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. Both can be tried without buying, but both are worth the $$.
If I were you I'd install the new drive in the open drive bay, clone the old one over to it, set it as the startup drive in system prefs, and finally once you're certain that everything is working, format the old drive. It doesn't matter which drive bay your startup drive is in.
Dual 2.0, 4 GB, 2x160 GB , SuperDrive, 9800 SE, 20 Aluminum - 15 1.5 PB, Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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