Any problems with a 1TB boot drive?

My Mac Pro finally got here and I added ram & a 1 TB WD Caviar Black HD as a boot drive. The boot drive as shipped was a 640GB WD Caviar Blue but after a lot of reading, I decided to make the 1TB black the Boot 'cause it's faster & roomier. Really don't want to have to change it out in a few years due to space constraints & go through the setup process all over again.
I also have another 1 TB WD Caviar Black coming (should be here today) that I intend to use as a capture scratch disc. I still have the 640GB blue in the machine for use probably as a boot drive for windows XP Pro & all the programs I run on it in my PC at this time.
The question I have is this: is there any problem with using the 1TB black as a boot drive?
I think I recall that in the past some folks advocated a smaller boot drive, but that was before the days of dual processor, 64 MB cache, and dual heads that make the 1TB quite speedy.
I think I'll setup a PCIe external raid in the not too distant future as the archive & backup resovoir. Any difficulties with that?
Ken

Thanks for the replies, they are all helpful.
@ Jim C, glad to hear confirmation on your setup success w/ WD Blacks. My thinking was exactly the same as yours, a drive with lots of room is faster.
@David, I've always had good luck with Seagate, but only had one older WD. I'm aware WD went through some reliability problems earlier. The reviews I found on the recent WD Cav blacks all said they were better all around drives than Seagate now a days. Sorry to hear about your drive failure, time will tell for me. I'm definitely going to go with enterprise class drives on the raid and will also have an installed spare in case on goes.
Some days it's peanuts & other days it's shells. Despite marketing claims on MTBF, there will always be "premature" failures as Jim Kells points out in his reply.
Ultimately when manufacturers get a better handle on SSD's, they will be the longest lived if for no other reason than no moving parts. Performance droop on many of them now also colors the current scene, IMO. Until then it's somewhat of a crap shoot.
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