Anyone try larger (600-750G or higher) internal drives?

Have any new Mac Pro owners tried internal drives larger than the 500GB Apple-supplied drives?
The 750GB Seagate, for example?
I find my dual 2.5GB GB Mac does not handle larger external drives well, even with an extra PCI card wth added Firewire 800 and USB-2 connections.. My LaCie 500 and 600GB tripple interface drives don't work well with USB-2 at all (neither did a returned USB-2 only "Big Disk" drive), and Firewire 800 runs into trouble fairly regularly when such drives are daisy-chained. And I have the best granite digital cables, etc.
I am hoping the new Mac Pros will do better and am anxious to hear real life exaperiences.
Thanks,
Mark

Barefeats did do some tests on 750GB (noted lots of problems, especially in 4-drive RAID).
Granite advises against down-streaming FW drives, and not surprised. I run each drive off its own port and have two FW800 PCI cards. Not a fan of the "D2" Bigdisk enclosures either.
USB2 is suppose to now be better on Intel, and be bootable, but it is slower on PPCs than FW, and hogs cpu (20-25%).
If you want good solid reliable and were going to go with external and PCI, I would recommend using SATA drives, and either Sonnet or SeriTek controllers.
The Mac Pro has 4 (or 6) internal SATA connectors, all independent. Has to be seen which PCIe cards will work.

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