Adding another Hard Drive to my HP Laptop 17-ca0xxx

[Paulzpc123]

I want to add another hard drive for storage  I have an external Hard Drive with a cable extension, but I want to put it inside my laptop and make it permanent, my question is, is there another port inside this laptop for another internal hard drive? 

[banhien]

@Paulzpc123 

What is your HP Laptop 17-ca0xxx ? HP offered two HDD's  for older Pavilion 17, m7, dv7 but not now. The Pavilion 17-ca0xxx series has dual storage options with M.2 SSD + 2.5" HDD/SSD.

Does your machine have M.2 SSD now ? If yes you can add 2.5" HDD/SSD to your machine. More info

                     http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05985614.pdf

Regards.

[Paulzpc123]

I only received a standard HHD with this model, my first mistake was I bought it though Finger-hut and it seems to be an HP but 5 months ago no one knew what it had inside of it, I added a 1TB SSD but it came with a standard HHD, I had to add another 8 gigs of ram with the SSD which made the laptop useable by my standards anyway, now I was wondering the motherboard had space for another standard HHD for storage. thank you BTW for the schematic of the laptop, very useful!     

[Paulzpc123]

No there is no space for that kind of SSD stick I bought one and couldn't find a space for it although the spec said I could add it, there was only a blank space just below the ram, there was a place for the screw but no plug-in for the stick.

[SwapnilBorage · Accepted solution]

With Hard drive caddy, we might add additional HDD, plz check this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6qFhbhX0jM

[Paulzpc123]

Very cool thank you!