The other option is to go for an 80-pin SCA interface drive and then get a 50 to 80 pin adapter card. I've used several of those in my MicroVAX 3100 M95 before switching entirely to ZuluSCSI SD card disk emulators.
This is the adapter card:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/386601300605
There are a number of vendors. They are all basically the same.
These are example drives:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235387320896 - The Seagate Cheetah ST318203LC are generally good drives. This one is 18GB which holds a LOT of VAX/VMS files.