Mac pro hybrid drive

Hi there guys,
My Mac pro 1.1 2007 boot times are relativly slow, and was considering a "seagate 1tb hybrid hard drive". My questions are:
1) Has anybody put in a hybrid hard drive into a mac pro 1.1 2007? What were the results?
2) Will it work correctly?
3) Does the mac contain a function to COMPLETELY COPY my main hard drive (With Mac OSX) to the hybrid drive if i get one, then if i replaced the old hard drive with the hybrid, would it work fine?
I want a SSHD because they are significantly cheaper than SSD, and have a large space which i want. I DONT have much money to spend, hence i am not buying a SSD. With this hybrid, my boot times should also rapidly increase correct? As the OS will go onto the solid state part ?
please if you HAVE EXPERIENCE or know someone who has done it or are CONFIDENT WITH THE RESULTS, please, please anyswer my questions!!
Thanks a lot guys!

By far the biggest payback (once you have enough RAM) for a Mac that supports multiple drives is to establish a Boot Drive, with only the System, Library, Applications, and the hidden unix files including Paging/Swap. User files are moved off to another drive.
This alleviates the "traffic jam" that is inherent with everything on the Boot drive.
If that drive (which can be surprisingly small) is a fast drive, it speeds up everything. If it is a low-latency SSD, that speeds things up even more. I have been running a Server-attached Mac Pro on an SSD as small as 30GB, but that is too small for most users. 128GB is plenty if user files are moved off.
The large space is on the drive in the next slot, and that is where your User files are located.
SSDs are still too expensive to be used to store everything.

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