Regular SSD from Kingston as external drive for Macbook over SATA?

Question

Solid State Drives

There are a lot of different external SSDs with USB Type-C for Mac on the market, but prices are usually higher than 5k for a good drive.
A regular 256GB Kingston SSD with a SATA connection costs 2500.

A SATA cable to USB Type-C costs around 800r. Total 3500 +- total.

How rational would it be to use the second option? Are there any downsides?
Provided that the disk is not needed for mobile use, and so on. Macbook is used as a hospital. An external drive is needed as an OS backup + storage of any slag.

I was given a macmini at work, they attached an ssd to it in this way. A regular ssd with sata connected to a regular usb 3.0. True, there constantly "touched" the wire and the PC was off. That's what they fear. Mb the wire has already lived ?! Or is sat itself so unstable

Answer 1

technically, no problem at all.
only aesthetic and convenience. the first is not a problem (for me), the second is solved by attaching the disk to the laptop lid or by careful handling.

Answer 2

My macbook is connected with only one thunderbolt wire to the monitor, it is charged from it, and all peripherals. A hub with USB3 - A ports is plugged into the USB on the monitor, into which an external keyboard, sound, external drive are plugged (for 5400, but it’s enough for me for projects). Everything is working fine. With an SSD it will be even faster