Recovering data from an old 2009 Mac laptop using HDD methods
Recovering data from an old 2009 Mac laptop using HDD methods
You should be able to remove the drives and plug them into another functioning machine. A Mac would make the process much simpler, though there are HFS+ file system drivers available. Perfectly fine to use a Mac if you prefer, but keep in mind there are no SAS drives for it. Older Intel Macs typically use SATA connections, which is standard. SAS technology never became popular for Macs either. You're probably considering SCSI, which was supported on Macs until the late 90s.
Macs never relied on SAS. They employed SCSI, though as BondiBlue mentioned, it was retired in the 90s to early 2000s.