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At least the hard drives can be plausibly used. SAS controllers aren't exactly cheap but might be worth it for a home server if a slew of used datacenter HDDs show up on the market.
Those GPUs are going to be useless, though.
Nah, hackers gonna hack, there'll be adapters (and linux drivers) right quick if there's a surplus (admittedly might be a tad power hungry, but I'd bet that too can be fixed). Destroyed for tax purposes is the real enemy.
Yeah, I'm gonna be keeping an eye out for a sudden drop in SAS drive prices on the off chance. Like you say, a dedicated SAS controller might just be worth it.