Moving hard drive to another computer?

I currently have an older G5 tower. It appears the power supply has finally given out after years of extensive use. I'm thinking this may be a good time for me to upgrade and purchase a Mac Pro. However, I'm not quite sure how to move the data from my old G5 to the new Mac Pro without replacing the power supply.
Any suggestions on how to avoid this? How troublesome would this be?
Thanks!

Not to worry. You should have a SATA disk in your old machine.
Just remove it from the old machine, take it to the new machine and add it as an additional drive.
You can use the Migration Assistant to move stuff to your new system drive,
and you can delete the old system from your old drive. Your choice as to
where you put your old (non-user, non-system) data.

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