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‎03-24-2025 06:30 AM

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Product: HP Z1 G9 Tower Desktop (525J6AV)

I have been using  this pc with a 1TB SSD that I fitted soon after purchase.I want to fit an addition, 2nd, SSD. Looking inside the board is noted with SSD2 & SSD3 makings but there do not seem to be "adaptors" or connections for a second SSD. Can you confirm that fitting a second SSD is possible and how I purchase the required connection components please.

 

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‎05-22-2025 10:49 AM - edited ‎05-22-2025 10:52 AM

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the HP quickspecs info appears to show that it supports one M.2 NVME ssd on the motherboard and two 3.5 in drive bays

 

each of the two 3.5in bays can hold one SATA 3.5 drive or two 2.5in SATA drives using a common 3rd party 3.5 to 2.5 dual drive adapter kit,  again some (not all) of these kits allow up to two 2.5in drives to be installed 

 

power for the two 3.5in SATA  drives should be from the power supply, if not then there will be a 4pin molex socket on the motherboard for the SATA drive power cable

 

https://www.amazon.com/3-5-2-hard-drive-bracket/s?k=3.5+to+2.5+hard+drive+bracket

 

https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/c08112669.pdf

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dng1WNAh2S4

 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/ish_5878469-5878634-16

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