Question Advice on what I should do about connecting a SSD to a motherboard

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I have a HDD that I want to connect to a old PC, turned into a server.
Here is the specs. What I care about is the motherboard.

So I am using one of the SATA ports it has, I have a spare in the form of the SATA port they have for the optical drive (Does this mean anything/ are all SATA ports the same? I will post the lspci -v gave me below)
I can't connect it to the power because the double power connecter is meant for one drive and one optical drive(the connecter is smaller here), not 2 drives...

The usb ports don't supply power so I can't use a USB 3.0 to SATA connector as the drive still needs power...

I have a power connector for the HDD, but the receiver is a 4 pin connector that I can't use on this motherboard.

Mainly the problem is I can't get power to the HDD. Any solutions?
The motherboard has x16 and a x1 PCIe slots, so I was thinking I could get a SATA HBA card, but it would need to supply power. If someone could direct me to one thats super cheap that would be nice.

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode] (rev 04) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
Subsystem: Dell 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller 1 [AHCI mode]
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
I/O ports at f0b0
I/O ports at f0a0
I/O ports at f090
I/O ports at f080
I/O ports at f060
Memory at f7d1a000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA v1.0
Kernel driver in use: ahci
Kernel modules: ahci
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: df200000-df3fffff [size=2M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000df400000-00000000df5fffff [size=2M]
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d4) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff [size=4K]
Memory behind bridge: f7c00000-f7cfffff [size=1M]
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f00fffff [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: pcieport