Can my hp omen have two hard drives at once?

[dinkwhitney]

HP - OMEN 15.6" Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 8GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 - 1TB HDD - Onyx Black/Twinkle Black

Model: 15-AX243DXSKU: 5712737

I just bought an 250gb SSD I want that installed in my laptop but I have a 1TB hdd already in my pc. I can not go from 1tb to 250gb but I really want the speed of the ssd. Does my laptop have enough room for two hard drives or would o have to replace my hdd completely with the ssd? If so I'll have to return the ssd until I can get a bigger one. I use this for gaming.

[Riddle_Decipher]

@dinkwhitney

Thank you for posting on HP Forums, 

Riddle_Decipher is at your service. 

As I Understand you want to know if you can have 2 hard drives at the same time,

Don't worry as I'll be glad to help, however, to provide an accurate resolution, I need a few more details: 

Did you check the user guide to obtain these details?

If you haven't, Click here to find you user guide and according to it, here's what your product supports:

Single hard drive

configurations:

1 TB (7200) 9.5 mm

2 TB (5400) 9.5 mm

PCIe NVMe Three Level Cell

(TLC) M.2 solid-state drive

(SSD:

256 GB

512 GB

Hard drive +SSD

configurations:

1 TB (7200) 9.5 mm hard drive

+ 512 GB PCIe Non-Volatile

Memory Express (NVMe) Triple

Level Cell (TLC) M.2 SSD

1 TB (7200) 9.5 mm hard drive

+ 256 GB PCIe NVMe TLC M.2 SSD

1 TB (7200) 9.5 mm hard drive

+ 128 GB M.2 SATA-3 SSD (Value)

2 TB (5400) 9.5 mm hard drive

+ 128 GB M.2 SATA-3 SSD (Value)

Let me know if that helps,

I hope you have a good day ahead,

And Feel free to ask any other queries as  well,

Considering, this forum has some of the best people in the world available and ready to help.

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[mdklassen]

From: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05357609 

there are two fans, but only one "bay" for a 2.5-inch disk-drive.

Additionally, there is no "internal" DVD-drive. 

If there was, it might have been possible to remove it, and insert a second disk-drive, in an adapter tray, into the bay.

As an option, your computer has:  HP USB External DVD/RW Drive

So, your only solution seems to be to put the SSD inside your computer, install Windows onto it, purchase an "empty" external disk-drive case for a 2.5-inch disk-drive, put your 1TB inside that case, and connect it via USB to your computer.

While you are "gaming", it will be using your "fast" SSD.

[dinkwhitney]

Thank you! You've been very helpful!