In our DIY NAS with Laptop series, the next step is storage planning.
T450 laptop comes with USB 3.0 ports so I want to take advantage of USB to SSD adapters to eliminate mechanical disks.
DIY NAS storage topology
500 GB for NAS from SSD and 500 GB for NFS/SAMBA for VMS from other SSD.
one replica to AMAZON S3 deep archive and one copy to a local USB disk.

Hardware used :
Crucial BX500 480GB 3D NAND SATA 6.35 cm
PiBOX India – USB 3.0 to 2.5″ SATA III Hard Drive Adapter 0.5 M
SanDisk 500 GB Extreme Portable SSD 1050MB/s R