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I had HP elitebook 2750p, after finishing college I set up a share folder to keep access the data on it, but eventually it become my NAS for +3 years.
Same as you, OS on msata, two internal drive one being in the optic drive with hdd caddy.
It was connected all the time with the battery connected, and nothing happened.
BTW, it had Manjaro KDE installed on it, so their battery optimization must have been doing something.
I used it as NAS/utilitybox/transcoding during that time.
I got mini pc recently to replace it, mainly for the better CPU/GPU so I can make webm faster and play some games.
BTW sandy bridge are very powerful CPUs that can still perform well, but it can't run modern indie games or older games on 1080.