What internal hard drive can I get with 2007 Mac Pro?

Hello,
I own a Mac Pro that I purchased sometime Early 2007 and I want to add an additional internal hard drive. I am a little confused as to what my options are after visiting the Apple online store. It seems they do not have a choice for 1 TB drives for my machine. I do know that my current drive is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA 3.0Gb/s (SATA II) 500-GB (16 MB cache buffer) Hard Drive.
I was wondering if I could add a 1 TB drive or do I need to stay with 500 GB size drive? Also, do I need to stick with 16 MB cache buffer or could I go with the 32 MB cache buffer size? If anyone has any recommendations, please let me know. Normally, I would just think I could get any drive that uses a SATA II standard.
Thank you,
Leapstepman
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro2,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per processor): 8 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP21.007F.B06
SMC Version: 1.15f3
System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)

I would still steer clear of Seagate, and WD drives are doing well across the board - Mac Pro and PCs.
Any SATA drive today is fine. SSD, 10K VelociRaptor, WD Green 1TB, Black Caviar... choice is yours.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/1tb-14hdd-roundup.html
http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/597-2/1TB-Hard-Drive-Roundup-Update/
http://www.barefeats.com/hard112.html

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