How Do I Format My Macintosh HD for Use as Data Drive?

Hi!
I recently bought two Maxline Pro 500 Gig hard drives to add to the 2 hard drives I received with my MacPro. But they're so fast and quiet I decided to use one of them as my boot drive and will be cloning the Macintosh HD to the one. I got that procedure. But, if I want to use the original Macintosh HD for data do I have to reformat and zero it out?
If so, please tell me what the procedure is.
Thanks so much! You guys are such a big help. Thanks Ned for the Maxline Pro recommendation. They're great. I copied about 500 videos (200 mgs each) to it the other night and it was finished by the time I brushed and flossed .
Ashleyn
Mac Pro 2.66ghz, Macbook Pro. Macbook, PowerMac G5 Dual Core Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi!
My Mac Pro has yet to arrive (hopefully Wed), but this topic has stirred my interest.
I've got two Maxline Pro 500G drives waiting here for their new home Not sure yet if I'd change the boot drive, but if I decide to do so, could someome please explain how I'd go about making the change so that one of the new drives is the boot drive? (or point me in a direction and I'll read up on it)
And one other question....and this is prob going to sound lame, but does it matter which bay the HD which contains the OS is in? Basically, if I decide to have the OS on one of the new drives which is in, say, bay 2 would I have to change its location to the first bay?
Any help/advice would be greatly apprecited...thanks in advance!
Regards,
Sainath

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