2nd internal HDD?

[W1tchseason]

Hi - I bought a 570-p075na from John Lewis because it seemed like a decent spec machine to start from. I swapped the 3TB HDD for a 500 GB SSD and attached the original HDD externally via USB3, but I wondered if it's possible/easy to have both drives inside the machine? The ribbon cable seems to have a connector halfway along it but there's no spare power connector that I can see. Similar machines seem to ship with both an HDD and an SSD inside, so can I do this - and would I get any performance benefit having the 2nd disk inside rather than external via USB3?

The link to my machine is https://www.johnlewis.com/hp-pavilion-570-p075na-desktop-pc-intel-core-i7-16gb-ram-3tb-amd-radeon-r5...

I think it's also this one http://support.hp.com/gb-en/product/HP-Pavilion-570-p000-Desktop-PC-series/13823514/model/15532149/d...


Thanks in advance.


Jerry

[WAWood]

@W1tchseason

Hello;

Allow me to welcome you to the HP forums!

The lack of a power plug is easy to fix buy purchasing a Y-adapter that has one power plug on one end and two on the other.  This will provide a power plug for each drive.

As to connecting, the internal bus connection for the drive is a LOT faster than the external ports.  So yes, you will get much better performance if the drive is connected internally than externally.

Good Luck

[wb2001 · Accepted solution]

@W1tchseason,

Your excellent links were insightful. The link to the specs rendered a pic of the motherboard.

You can not add the 2nd hard drive internally because:

1) The motherboard only has 2 SATA headers, 1 Hard drive, 1 DVD drive.  You could pull out the DVD drive, and use that header. 2) That model only has a single slot,  and that PCIE slot is presently occupied by your graphic card.

Using a USB 3.0 external dock is your only option.  Sent you a PM.

[sniffer6]

Couldnt you just fit an m.2 SSD and leave the HDD where it is? Clone the OS to the SSD to boot from and use the HDD as storage.

[wb2001]

@sniffer6,

The original inquiry was in March 2018. It's now 8 months later.  Why are you dredging up stale inquiries that the original OP will likely never view ?

Did you not read the original inquiry?

He wanted to internally  ADD  the hard drive.  If he had wanted to purchase an M.2 SSD, he would have stated so.