2TB Seagate drive on sale from NewEgg?

NewEgg is currently having a 72 hour sale on a Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB 5900 RPM Hard Drive -Bare Drive. I was wondering if these would work in my Mac Pro 2 x 2.66 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon tower that I purchased in 2007? I currently have a couple of Seagate Barracua 7200 RPM SATA 3.0GB/s 3.5" hard drives. I'm very happy with them.
Will I notice a slowdown because of the the 5900 RPM? I have a lot a large files (800 MB average) that I manipulate in photoshop CS4 and don't want to experience any great slowdowns. But I would love the increase in storage capacity that this 2TB drive offers. Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated? Only have about 72 hours before the sale ends.
Thanks for your help.
Lou

I just posted my bad experience with trying to put a 2 TB drive in a Mac Pro 1,1 (2007) on another thread in this same forum.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2290220&tstart=0
I hear bad things recently about Seagate, but I've have 4 500G seagates that have been very reliable. I swapped in a 1.5 TB seagate, and then bought a 1 TB WD black hoping for more speed. The 1TB WD died in less than 6 months, and when I tried to replace it with the 2 TB WD Green, I hit a limit on the old MAC PRO EFI boot proms. I don't claim to have a statistically significant sample, but I'm not convinced WD is so much better than Seagate. I am convinved the MAC PRO 1,1 EFI proms have issues with 2TB drives.

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