What is an SFF hard drive?

So, I guess I could put about any SATA spinner or SSD in there?
Yep. Personally I've mostly used Samsung Pro SSDs in Proliant servers (in RAID 1/10) for any permanent setups (plus the occasional old laptop HDD for testing purposes), but any drive should work.

I also have a couple of old Dell rack servers, with 3.5 inch SAS drive bays, that I often use for SATA drive cloning/copying and data recovery, mainly for the convenience of being able to hot-swap and slide drives in/out the front (I don't usually bother with a caddy if it's for temporary use). Plus I can use the server's Lights-Out Management to remotely access it from my desk, whether or not there's an OS installed, which is particularly handy for remote BIOS/RAID configuration and when I'm booting the server from some Linux data recovery USB drive. I've had hundreds of different SATA HDDs and SSDs (both 2.5 and 3.5 inch) in those bays over the years.
 
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