Netbook + 3.5 HDD (2 Tb) -> budget NAS

Question

Do it yourself

For a long time I had an Acer AO 110 (ZG5) netbook gathering dust, on which a SATA connector was soldered at one time , memory up to 1.5 Gb was added and even Android (x86) was installed (:
And recently I got a Seagate ST2000DM001 (2 Tb ), in practically new condition. Like, probably, any person involved in the IT-sphere, I had an insurmountable itch to somehow use this farm ...
The problem is that I no longer have Desktop machines left in my household (gave lovingly assembled server / desktop for charity, which, moreover, frightened his wife with its case consisting of one plywood sheet), only laptops / smartphones. I was going to buy a similar docking station, as I remembered that I'm kind of like with hands and in general an IT-person: I have a netbook + disk + put some NAS4Free -> profit on it!
But then I would not be writing here, but would have already prepared an article for Habr in order to get a long-awaited invite.
My pepelats did not take off and now I am asking for advice from knowledgeable people in what I could have miscalculated. Finally, I will describe in detail what I did:
-I made an adapter from the SATA connector of the killed screw on one side and the SATA-DATA and Power wires on the other (I can add a photo by the evening);
-I connected it to the connector on the netbook and connected it directly to the 3.5 hard drive, although I guessed that there probably wouldn’t be enough power, so it didn’t even turn on (the hard drive);
-I used a more powerful power supply unit not from a netbook, but from an old Acer laptop with a power of 90 W - it did not help;
-I tried the performance of a new design on a 2.5-inch disk that was used with a netbook earlier - it also works in the BIOS at a time, unlike a large colleague;
-I used a regular ATX PSU, for power, the disk spun, but it still continued to point blank not to see the netbook BIOS, although in the opposite case with a 2.5 disk, everything worked successfully ... I
also forgot to mention that if it does take off , I plan to install the OS on the native PATA-SSD of the netbook, on 8 Gb, which, although slowly, works quite well for itself.
The process stopped at this point, now I’m thinking about what prevents the system from seeing the disk, maybe a rather old generation chipset?
UPD:clarification - the disk is now formatted in NTFS under MBR (I did it in order to test it under a working Win7 computer).
UPD2: the disk did start up, after I launched the netbook and the PSU at the same time, tomorrow I will collect everything to a normal state and finalize what happened.

Answer 1

Can't you connect an external USB drive with a separate power supply to this netbook?
At my house, an external WD Elements drive with a power supply is connected via USB to a laptop with Win XP 32 bit, while the 3 Tb drive is perfectly seen by Windows, even without any GPT there (a feature of this external drive model is that it has an increased cluster size, which allows you to use all 3 Tb at the hardware level even in old Windows without using GPT)

Answer 2

Such an option was supposed to be developed, in the form of a docking station, but then this issue would not have existed, it's all simple. I was also interested in the opportunity to use the disk via the SATA interface, and not via the slow USB 2.0 - which can only pull the netbook. Indeed, in combination with 100 Mbit LAN, the difference will be noticeable in the case of USB and in the case of SATA.
But you should not consider my problem as a serious approach to building a home ecosystem, just as long as there is what is available, I want to try to cross it so that it does not stand idle), Just For Fun.

Answer 3

I have an Asus x101ch netbook without HDD 2.5 and I have an extra HDD 3.5.
I'll try to twist it all together, I wonder if it will pull.