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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I salute our new overlords… :)

Are they both on the same network/IP space by chance?

after the second or third NOS toner spewing its contents inside a printer, I splurged and purchased a toner vacuum. Cheaper than having the printer tech come out and clean up the mess for me.

as the printer tech explained to me, those NOS toners (at least HP ones) have a plastic piece that wears out when sitting in the box.

CanJam Wow, have never heard of CanJam before. never knew there was such a fanbase for headphones. Thanks for the pointer!

Most of the gear is component, 70s-00’s era stuff.

Thanks for creating! I have an HP Laserjet on my home workbench now

Offtopic, but thanks for the work you do. I was at a ewaste place last night looking for parts to upcycle some computer equipment & a printer currently on my workbench.

(raises hand) if still needed… been a mod/organizer/community manager for years on the various platforms

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.

Hey @[email protected] what did you end up doing with the server? From where yo uar enow, we could provide some other ideas/directions to head.