Want to upgrade my main HD in my Mac Pro.

I want more capacity and better performance than the original drive.  Should I just plan on starting over with that drive and reinstalling the OS or should I clone to the newer, faster, larger drive?
I'm running Leopard.  I have 3 additional drives in the box but can pull one out temporarily if I need to. 

I'd just clone to a bigger faster Hard Drive with more cache, unless you can afford a few SSDs...
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal09.html

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