HP 17 Laptop Hard Drive Caddy?

[PhysicistSarah]

Hello,

I have a 17-ca1065cl laptop that I'm interested in installing a second hard drive in.

I plan on replacing the already existing traditional hard drive with an SSD and placing the traditional hard drive in the disk tray as a caddy.

I can't seem to find any vendors for this though.

I've been searching using the search terms: HP 17 laptop caddy, but common vendors don't show up with the caddy.

Where can I find such a caddy? Am I sing the correct search terms?

[banhien · Accepted solution]

@PhysicistSarah 

The specs of your machine is

    https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c06447684

It supports DUAL storage with M.2 SATA SSD + 2.5" M.2 SATA SSD. You can simply add 1TB or 2TB of M.2 SATA SSD to your machine using Crucial MX500 or Samsung 860 EVO series .. For example

         https://www.crucial.com/usa/en/hp-17-ca1065cl/CT16134647

If you still prefer to us ODD bay you need a 9.0mm caddy  please try

         https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-9.0mm-hdd-caddy.html

         https://www.amazon.com.au/Zheino-Aluminum-Adapter-Universal-DVD-ROM/dp/B07PGNKYPX

         https://www.ebay.com/c/26023098311

Note: You need 9.0mm otherwise too thick, won't physically fit.

Regards.

[PhysicistSarah]

Sounds great! I didn't know that the M.2 board could support 2 SSDs.

I decided to go with the optical drive caddy though.

Thank you!