With just a small investment, I had a plug-and-play drive from something that was otherwise just collecting dust in a storage ...

BENFEI 2.5 Inch SATA to USB Tool Free External Hard Drive Enclosure, USB Type-C/Type-A to Sata Compatible for 2.5 Inch SSD(Optimized for SSD, Support UASP SATA III) ...

Despite some compatibility restrictions, the Synology DiskStation DS925+ NAS maintains your home backups with little ...

and the drive was initialized as an APFS volume with a GUID Partition Map. Using Black Magic Disk Speed Test, the enclosure and SSD had a read speed of 2906.4 MB/s and a write speed of 3067.2 MB/s ...