I have a Lenovo ThinkStation P700 with 2x Xeon E5-2620 V3 processors and 96GB RAM. It came with Windows 10 which I kept for a while and tried out WSL2. I now want to wipe out the Windows and do a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04. As far as I can tell it should be compatible with those processors but I wanted to ask if anyone had done this, or similar, install and whether there is anything to watch out for. I have only installed Ubuntu on to raw machines before with EXT3 or 4 drives. This has a 512GB SSD for the OS plus 3 NTFS hard drives. I will back up the hard drives but I hope that the Ubuntu install will leave them untouched and then mount (either automatically or manually) the NTFS drives. Is this correct or is there an advantage in reformatting the drives as EXT4 and restoring several TB of data from backup? Thanks for your help. Mike
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