On my laptop i have 2TB nvme from which 1.1TB is taken by VMs. Those VMs come and go - they are not super important. I want to move them somewhere to external storage.
The easiest way would be to just buy new nvme disk and slap it into my IcyDock nvme enclosure. But i have bunch of old 2.5" SSDs lying in my shelf - 4x120, 2x250, 2x512GB. As i said im not afraid about VMs data so i think those would be good enough. I wonder if can make some storage pool from them. If so how? Also have 2x1TB HDDs 2.5" which was my old ZFS pool but these will probably be too slow for VMs.
NAS will be expensive and slow (1gbps is not enough).
Buy few usb disk enclosures + usb HUB, connect it to laptop and make mergefs/LVM pool?
Buy some JBOD enclosure like thos yottamaster, (but this in terms of price may come close to new drive)?
Any other ideas?