Yea, what this guy says. Throw a new HD in the machine, install linux to it, and then just /mount your other previously-windows HDs.

ntfs-3g uses a userspace driver that crap-ifies the performance

iirc linux can read ntfs but not write...unless things progressed. it was a licence issue, not a software one.

Things progressed, certainly, and it looks like this was broadly fixed in October 2021 (kernel 5.15):

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs3-driver-faq/

But there will be details, limitations of some kind, and I can't work out what those are without much more digging.