Transferring my files from my 1.1 Mac pro to my new 5k iMac FireWire to lighting?

i Just ordered the replacement for my antique 1.1 version Mac Pro which is loaded with external FireWire hard drives as well as 3 internal 1 and 2 tearabyte and the one tearabyte SSD boot drive it is of course on 10.7.5 it also has a pair of apple cinama displays on from 2006 and the other from 2011
i just bought the machine below picking it up in a week and with it a pair of FireWire 800 to lighting adapters ....
my thought was to transfer my important stuff to the fusion drive via a FireWire 800 to lighting2 cable and the Apple transition software and then get a lighting 2 housing that will take the 3 internal hard drives and the internal SSD then chain my large external fire wire 800 drives and my FireWire brueray drive off of it with one of the adapters
does all this sound ok? I have not been able to find a lighting 2 drive case the takes the old mac pro drive sleds but can a good 4 or 6 bay lighting 2 extrrnal drive case be recomended?
as the old Mac Pro has windows XP sp3 as its boot camp I know it can not make the move.
I do have win 7 pro 64 as my boot camp on my mid 2009 Mac book pro already running Yosemite with all of the boot camp applications and data on an external F800 two tear drive from laci so my first thought was to use the orignal win 7 distrub DVD to create a new boot camp partition on the 3tera fusion drive but I am wondering if it would be better to set up the SSD in its new home as dedicated to the boot camp stuff with the existing win external drives....
Sorry for for all the questions but I am some one who made the transition from 400k to 800k to the first mac+ 5 meg hard drives to the SCCI world then to FireWire 400 then to FireWire 800 and I am hoping that this hopefully last migration for a while with be at least semi painless.... And as I near 70 I am not quite the geek I once was.
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display
$3,349.00
With the following configuration:
4.0GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.4GHz
16GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x8GB
3TB Fusion Drive
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4GB GDDR5
Apple Magic Mouse
Apple Wireless Keyboard (English) & User's Guide
Accessory Kit
AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
$169.00

i was up until 4AM reading reviews and studying features and prices of every thunderbolt box i could find and in the end ordered the thunder bay 4 from new egg for $516.99 including shipping
as of today i found nothing better on the market for a thunderbolt 4 bay box i could have saved perhaps $35 by getting 2 highpoint dual bay boxes but the loss of versatility and perceived quality crossed that option off the list so OWC thunder bay 4 it is . it should get here just in time too
thanks again for the help

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