Possible to add hard drives from a G5 to a new Mac Pro?

I am getting ready to retire a Power Mac G5 Quad and am wondering whether I can take its two serial-ata internal hard drives and install directly into two of the empty slots I have in a new Mac Pro? Any issues that I should be aware of?
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Brymer

Hi Brymer, welcome to Apple Discussions!
You've posted in the Macbook Pro forum by mistake. Below is a link to the Mac Pro forum, where you'll be able to find better assistance than here.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=194
If I had to guess though, I would say that you can definitely take your old drives and physically install them directly into the new Mac Pro, though you won't be able to run the copy of OS X that may be on those drives. You'll have to use the copy of OS X that is included with the Mac Pro, because the two (even if they are the same version) will likely be different. Do post in the other forum though, they will know better than anyone here.
Good luck!
--Travis

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