Can I move 2TB internal HD from old mac to new mac and still access files

I just upgraded to a new Mac Pro, we have an old G5 Ma Pro thats getting retired. In the old G5 we have an internal 2TB WD drive with all of our customer art files.
Can I simply pull the HD from the G5 and stick it in the new Intel machine and have access to all of the files and documents on the new machine?

Yes.
But I would clone / backup / off load all the files (2x to be safe) and then reformat the drive to new GPT format.
Your G5 PowerMac and Mac Pro carry different names, a Mac Pro is Intel-only.
So I'd pick up at least another 2TB WD Black as a minimum, or maybe you already have backups of those files already.
Your old system of course isn't compatible and should not be installed until reformatted; clean install and update everything, and you will be "stuck" with 10.6.6 as the minimum build (hopefully most things are compatible now).
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