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does anyone know where i can find an extra power supply on the mobo (or elsewhereon the harness)

 to add a third drive in the spare 3rd  bay

I cant seem to find one or it ...

wanting to  add a seagate baracuda 7200.12 1000Gbytes

from my previous HP

 

any ideas ?

 

many thanx in advance

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Hi,

 

If you look carefully at the below image, you will see that the OMEN 870-1xx series is provisioned to support three (3) physical hard drives. If you want use more three SATA devices then I suggest that you not use the optical drive if installed but instead use a USB connected optical drive. I even ran into this situation of not having enough SATA ports on a Z270 chipset motherboard and elected to use an USB optical drive.  I seldom use optical these days and more and more PCs are being sold without optical drives.  Optical is a dying technology. However if may still be beneficial to you. If the PCIe x1 slot is open in your PC then you could add a PCIe card to provide additional SATA ports.

 

omen 850-1xx drive cage.jpg

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Hi,

 

The OMEN 870-119 is prewired for three hard drives. 

 

Before you buy a HD, remove your existing HD and take a photo of the HD mounting glide screws and then post the photo. This HP manual should be helpful.

 

Thanks.

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Custom PC - Z690, i9-12900K, 32GB DDR5 5600, dual 512 GB NVMe, gen4 2 TB m.2 SSD, 4K screen, OC'd to 5 Ghz, NVIDIA 3080 10GB
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Hi Dave thanx for the quick response

 

I had used the manual

the 3rd inline drive doesnt seem to have a 

a power cable for it the 1st drive and 2 nd have ribbon power cord from the mobo but i havent seen a 3 power supply to add another drive or the 3rd drive 

 

just wondering if im missing something obvious ....... 

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@Irek79

 

Open up the PC and look.

 

Also per my other post, post an image of the HD mounting glide screws.  The community would like to see the mounting glide screws.

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hi thanx dave

i did have the p.c open

and next time im inthere i will take the pics off the screws .....

any particuliar reason ?

angle mounted uses all 6 to guide in and then clips / locks into place

 

will update you btw chat support havent been off help need to call

 

hp partsurfer.....

 

http://partsurfer.hp.com/Search.aspx?searchText=4CE6480JB8

 

 

will update when i can

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Hi Irek 79

I have same problem, did you get a solution for sata cable?

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there is no solution to add a third sata drive internally as all cables are

already in use

 

 

                                1 SSD

                                2 HDD

                                3 Cd/Dvd rom

 

at the retail/box store I was told there  was space for expansion , technically there is a space

not what i was needing asit was my old p.c hard drive

But for you ?

 

unless you unplug one of the above which i figure would be the cd/dvd if you need space

or get an   USB3.0 sata cable or drive enclosure with the same specs ........... then you have a 3rd  sata drive without messing with the existing configuration

 

unless anyone else knows different solution

 

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I wanted install old HD same like you. This PC is really over price for what is it. 

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UNless I'm missing something, from the specification & pictures shown here:

 

http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/omen-by-hp-870-100-desktop-pc-series/12079703/document/c05241080...

 

It's clear that motherboard has only three SATA ports.

 

So you can connect only three devices - and it sounds like they're connected already (SSD, HD, DVD).

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