stackoverflow.com/a/72181572/308851 could be easily adjusted to do this.

I do. Your version SSHs into the target specifying a jump host and building a tunnel on localhost, my version SSHs into the jump host and builds a tunnel using the target host.

Does this answer your question? VNC connection via SSH proxy machine

This doesn't work for me. serverfault.com/a/216994/64874 this one does, which in this case would be ssh -L 5990:10.10.1.44:5900 192.168.1.22

Thanks for your contribution! This question predates vpn-slice by quite a few years but it's great such a tool is available now!

I can't recall when was the last time a major server manufacturer used a proprietary drive connector (maybe some wretched SCSI stuff? those days, oh my) or whitelisted hard drive models. This is simply not done. In very broad strokes, you can always just swap drives.