Looking past the folks recommending to sell them, it seems you have a handful of useful responses here (welcome to the internet & endless September). /snark Look past the naysayers, it will be fun and a learning experience just getting these drives up and running - a worthwhile experience IMHO.

I am down a similar path now, with a bunch of SAS drives. What I have learned/experienced so far:

• Forget any USB docking stations or enclosures, they may advertise working for all SAS drives but are hit & miss expensive but cheaply made plastic crap.
• There are a plethora of adapters available online that say you can convert SAS to SATA. Do not believe them - you need a SATA controller that also supports SAS. You may luck out and have a motherboard that has the right SATA chipset that supports SAS, you may not.

As others have mentioned in this thread, the easiest & optimal approach seems to be:

• Get a low end workstation or server that supports SAS in the chipset and the drive bays
• Get a low end workstation or server that supports SAS in the chipset and that you can add the drive bays you need
• Get a low end workstation or server that you can install a controller card that supports SAS

I scored a free workstation from craigslist and one from freecycle, for another project on the workbench.

HTH, and good luck!

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Define old? I have older/vintage Mac gear I use on a regular basis. My G5 still has my entire music collection and syncs all my iPods just fine.

There is the personal/home security hand out from the NSA (yea, that NSA) https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/what-we-do/cybersecurity/professional-resources/csi-best-practices-for-keeping-home-network-secure.pdf?v=1 https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/22/2003165170/-1/-1/0/CSI_BEST_PRACTICES_FOR_SECURING_YOUR_HOME_NETWORK.PDF This is an older version, but I appreciate the level of detail on this one: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/campaign/NSA-guide-Keeping-Home-Network-Secure.pdf

Anytime you purchase a car, the PHI is shared amount so many companies/organizations. Best submit a “right to be forgotten” request to the data companies as well as the marketers targeting you, and a “do not share” request to your bank, your state DMV, and everyone else that was involved in the transaction. HTH!

Do you have a throwaway email address that could be used instead, not connected to the accounts on that smartcard/yubikey? Perhaps put a phone number or PO box with the message “if lost please call/send to”. This worked for me in a major city, where I dropped my swipe badge and transit card. A nice gentleman called me & we met up a block away to pass it back. I then verified the access has not been tampoered with, and asked for new cards (just in case).