Possible to put two or more 3.5 SATA drives in optical bay of early 2008 mac pro?

Hello! A question about expansion really. Here is my iexpansion plan. Wondering if you can see any possible problems?
drive bay 1 - SSD - raid with drive 2
drive bay 2 - SSD - raid with drive 1
These will make the boot drive.
Then...
drive bay 3 - 3.5" sata - raid with drive 4
drive bay 4 - 3.5" sata - raid with drive 3
Two extra internal eSATA ports being extended out with wires to an empty PCI slot, leading to two external 3.5" drives in eSATA interfaced, self-powered enclosures.
Optical Bay - Removing the two currently installed optical drives and replacing with two 3.5" SATA drives. In order to do this I'll need to get some form of ATAPI to SATA adapter as my early 2008 macpro uses the older interface.
So my question is:
Can you see any reason why this would not work and if you can point me towards an adapter that might work for holding/converting the interface of those two 3.5" drives in the optical bay? Will there be enough space for the adapter? I'll probably rig my own bracket for holding the drives there but any suggestions welcome!
Will power become an issue? I'm also running a flashed PC graphics card which uses both of the additional power ports (rather than just one). But other than that nothing extra.
Many thanks for your time!

Hi Hatter,
Thanks for your reply. I'm not so worried about the SSDs as I am about the ability to put 2x3.5" SATA drives into the optical bay and have them fit (I do not want to pay a lot of money for any fancy pieces of metal such as the one you linked) when they necessary PATA-SATA adapter and power supply adapter if attached to them. Have you ever seen someone do this and what adatper did they use? I'm looking at this sort of thing:
http://www.cooldrives.com/satoidecofor.html
I can not put the SSDs in the Optical bay because the slower PATA interface would cut the speed so much it would not be worth it.
Any tips on known reports of 2x 3.5" drives fitting in there would be great, and what adapter was used.
Thanks!

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