Old hardrive in new Mac pro

I bought a second internal hardrive for my old 1.6 G5. I bought it from an apple reseller so assume it is the standard type. Can I install this in my new Mac pro 2.88 (when it arrives)?
Also, I want to use this hardrive with logic and some third party plugins. What is the best way to configure this. Applications on main hardrive, all audio files and samples, sample libraries (including those for logic) on the second Hardrive? Any advice on utilising my hardrives for music produciton would be great
Cheers

You have four drive bays. Spread everything out. Your old hard drive is likely a couple years old. I would reformat it (which you need to do anyway to GUID partition table format for INTEL Macs) and use it for an emergency backup clone of your system and put it someplace safe. Off line, maybe in FireWire/SATA case.
I'd look into 3 x 500GB drives from WD. 750GB if you want even better performance.
Don't use Migration Assistant for any PPC applications, just for preferences, settings and data.
Music and audio benefit nicely from 4 drives.

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