[H] ubuntu NTFS?

[Winterlight]

I plan on  putting together a PC from old parts, dual Xeon, 4GB of 
DDR, ATI 1950Pro, to stick all my extra hard SATA drives in. I am not 
doing RAID. Each individual drive is partitioned as a Logical NTFS.I 
don't want to deal with licensing issues so I thought I would run 
Windows 2000...except it doesn't support HT.... but then I thought 
this would be a good time to use Ubuntu 9.01. I know it can read NTFS 
and there is a driver to let it write to NTFS, but how safe, and 
reliable is this... do I have to worry about Data corruption?