Would my Mac Pro accept an internal HD with SATA 6Gb/s with 64MB Cache?

I am looking to expand the storage on my Mac Pro and wanted to know if it would accept internal HD with SATA 6.0Gb/s, 7200RPM, 64MB Cache.  Also, do they accept 3 T Drives?

I would point out that Apple never updates hardware specs on hard drives.
That was the size available at the time.
Doubt any real testing went into it.
Almost no one buys hard drives from Apple unless:
They are using Apple RAID controller and want to be sure; they use SAS; don't realize that for normal customers even workstations, SATA II/III are fine and there is nothing special, there are not Apple firmware models that you need other than Apple controller support.
When the Mac Pro 2006 came out I think 750GB was the largest, and while other web pages get updated and tech notes reflect new information, that has not happenend to product spec pages. - And there are pages where the specs and hardware/software requirements are even off base, making matters even worse.
Any drive that can fit as is or with an adapter (such as Icy Dock for SSDs) that has SATA interface.
Guess that is too complicated??

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