Second hard drive

[S2Y]

Will I be able to use 2 hard drives with a Stark motherboard?  If Yes, what parameters? Thank you

[BeemerBiker]

When I looked up TE01-4000 the motherboard was listed as RenoR and part number N00594-603

Possibly a different motherboard was used.  What does the serial number for your desktop show at the below site?

https://partsurfer.hp.com/partsurfer/

Is it the Renor or the Stark?

Here is a picture I found using google

A pair of SATA drives can attach to the two blue connectors.  If you have an optical drive then one is for the DVD.  There other is for the HDD.  Under the pair of blue SATA there is an M.2 for an NVME SDD drive.

If all of your expansion SATA &  m.2 are full, then you might consider a USB-3 external drive. Alternately you could use a PCIe to NVME adapter to add 1 or 2 TB of SSD storage.

[S2Y · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much. Really appreciated. Hopefully I should receive my computer first week in March. So, I don't know the serial number yet. I was under impression this machine has a Stark motherboard. I guess I'm mistaken. It seems I need to wait for the machine to arrive to be certain. In any case I do appreciate the information you provided.