My suggestion if you intend to do this a lot is to grab a P4 era low end workstation with 512MB-1GB of ram at most. And an internal CD/DVD rom. USB 2
An old working tube monitor. People will give these away for free. Or even pay you to take one.
Multiple matched usb-Drive docks. Adaptors work, but make sure they let the drive sit flat and flush to the desk. I’ve seen many that keep the back of the drive lifted slightly. This puts pressure on the port. Scsi has a LOT of pins and that’s a lot of points that could be damaged.
Resources
https://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html?=mtu4Good for testing
https://www.livecd.com/killdisk.htmlGood for killing
You can also try
https://distrowatch.com/search.php#advanced for a live cd OS.
Chose live medium in the Distribution category
My personal suggestion is to use BSD based systems for things like this because they don’t purge older support anywhere near what Linux does. And modern BSD systems will boot just fine on relatively older equipment.