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Well, again, their sheild adapting technology very specifically works on phaser and torpedo warheads, but haven't shown any adaptability to other weapons, and the entry on Memory Alpha entry seems to make this explicit. That doesn't mean that they don't stop other weapons, just that they only work like normal shields against other weapons. So, 23rd century warbirds probably wouldn't be very effective against the Borg, since they're old, outdated, and probably underpowered tech, but a Galaxy Class Starship with plasma weapons as powerful as normal phasers would probably do well.
So, if the sheilds don't nullify the Death Star's weapons, this match up would basically be the same as any large Star Trek ship vs. the Death Star. And since the Death Star is so massive, pretty much any ship is gonna get wrecked. I'm sure the Borg would do fine against a Star Wars ship of roughly comparable size, but the Death Star is almost 100 times larger.
Not sure where you got in memory alpha that they can only adapt to phasers, this is what memory alpha has to say.
Dude, it was literally the first thing I linked to, and I even quoted the most relevant portions of the entry.
Is that memory beta or something? It's only reference is the destiny novels.
Oh, you're right, it's the Borg Wiki, it just looks the same because they both run on Fandom. Still, there's no reason to think that's no longer cannon just because Destiny is no longer cannon. We never see borg weapons adapting to anything other than phasers and photon torpedos, and there's lots of circumstantial evidence that they can't adapt to other weapon types.
There's also circumstantial evidence that they can adapt to other weapon types. Klingons and Romulans both ice disrupters and they're are drones of those species. But probably even more telling, star fleet never whacked plasma cannons on their new anti Borg ships, when it was a well established technology. On personal shields I'll grant you that they seemed to struggle (or maybe it just wasn't used enough) to adapt to holomatter based projectiles.
For the ships themselves I grant you the raw power and tonnage will tell. But for a Borg boarding party I see no reason for storm troopers to fare any better than others.