Hard drive issues mac pro 2008

Im getting round to some major upgrade of hard drives. My machine runs on 2 x 2.8GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon with 10GB RAM
I am wanting to put a SSD for applications and a 2TB internal hard drive for file storage and data.
As the machine runs at 3Gb/s SATA, i gather there would not be much point in a 6Gb/s SSD, if that would even be compatable with the machine.
So I am hoping to install a Crucial 3gb/s SSD 256GB SSD for my applications.
However with the HDD, Western Digitial Drives seem to be mainly 6Gb/s - will these be compatible with early 2008 MacPro as I would like to install a 2TB WDFAEX Caviar Black into this machine - I would be grateful for any help in clarifying compatability with these products.

Thanks again - will keep Snow Leopard for now as it is working fine... the method i am thinking of doing and not that much of a techie is as follows...
Install SSD and 2tb HDD
Copy all existing data files onto 2tb HDD leaving only application files and system files OSX etc on original drive.
Do an install of Snow Leopard from cd onto SSD
use migration assistant to to copy OSX settings, applications, mail settings etc.. across from original disk.
What im still not sure about is whether i am best to move all my existing data onto new HDD into a new named Data folder ( not the home folder ) In this case presumably the home folder will ultimately be on the SSD although not used for huge amounts of  storage... Ive heard mixed reports about attempting to move home folder to new drive.. ?

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