thank you for sharing this helped me a lot and what i have brought will work just fine, the only thing i will do diffrently is to desolder the sata port of the motherboard that way i can have it fit in place perfectly.

for that i wanna help you using HyperFi a simple bash script wizard to install Hyperbola

Hey Rachad

Recently I've understood that my "second speaker" solution is not good enough at all for the X200 Paranoid Edition, because in it I have to get rid of the speaker entirely! 

So, if you add some instruction about desoldering that sata port, I'll definitely give it a try. (Also I have some concerns about hdd's placement:it looks like it sits pretty tight, but eventually I'd like to place it on original rubber rails).

Maybe the second minipcie slot will be useful for it? I need to do some research about that

That would be just great. I thought about a couple of pictures...  And my luck

What about Peertube or something like that? (I haven't used it yet, though)

the one i buyed already have 2x 2.0 usb ports Adapter-link, so i will be using one for the 1.8" ssd and the other for the audio adapter but i dont know how i will do that or if i will do it in the short term

tested working with both usb ports at the same time , the only issues i run into was wen nothing connected in the 2 ports alsamixer would not provide sound maybe without any usb connected alsa would detect it as audio device, the other is some whining noise not that big, lower than the screen noise and maybe fixed in the future
#the screen noise can be removed using tpad-tools maybe add to hyperbola v0.4 and installed using :

doas pacman -S tpad-tools

please dont break anything yet the audio mod is not that important, from my view it potentially leaks motherboad noise wen the headphone is plugged so in practice we just remove anything connected to audio ports wen we have something like a private key to be used and if you wanna do it i have a better idea keeping that case in good shape maybe i will include it in my video

Well, here is some bad (at least for me) news.

I can't configure ALSA properly for the usb sound card. I've tried different things, to name a few: blacklisted intel hda; different configs of ~/.asoundrc, /etc/asound.conf, /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf. It seems like it works, I can run Alsamixer, but at the end of the day I get horrible noise of my headphones when I try to play a file...Like very loud static noise or distorted sounds.

Maybe it is some kernel related things or package's version, but my enthusiasm for this question is beginning to wane.

well i will upload pictures for now cause i cant find a place to upload my video, until i get my server runing everything woks great though

##this last security mod was done by the help of my partner Didou##

what i used was :

1) usb to sata 1.8" adapter
2) mini-pci to usb / 2x "2.0 usb ports"
2) ssd 1.8"
3) usb flash drive used for extra space for now

in these pictures i dont show how i desoldered the sata port but in the video i will

#here i will desolder the the cable of usb to sata 1.8" adapter

#soldering the sata usb adapter into the motherboard using screws

#the other side showing the two screws that helped me to solder there
## you have to use verry small screws that fit there if you force bigger ones you could brick your motherboard creating electrical issues.

#now soldering the other cable into the sata 1.8" adapter to use it with mini-pci

#final images

#this last one shows what i have removed from my motherboard and what i add

second UPDATE:
After testing with and without it there is no diffrence if verry litel, so im keeping the minipci but i have more ideas and changes to be made in this x200 or maybe other thinkpads , i will be sharing all mods here and upload pictures for now until i run my server