Adding a second SSD drive to my HP Envy Desktop

[@robertthornburg6506]

Thank you so much for this video! It was perfect - very smooth and professional. I needed a little hand holding (78 yrs old) and this did the trick. One of the best and most succinct.

[@workbenchz]

I'm glad it helped.

[@RobinSingh]

thank you for taking the time to make a video - v helpful!

[@workbenchz]

Seeing it before trying it always helps me.

[@randyzeroth4098]

Wow, thank you so much for making this video!!! Excellent resource, and it answered my question.

[@workbenchz]

Thank You. I often find youtube a great resource for finding a task is not as hard as I imagined, and I try to give the same back.

[@MLZ1957]

of the two cables that you connected to the SSD card, what is the smaller of the two cables called? I want to do the exact thing to my HP Envy but don't have that cable

[@workbenchz]

A little digging into the reference for the Rother 8653 motherboard, there is a black 4 pin (square) min power connector for the HDD between the M.2 Solid State Drive and the memory module slots. This power cable should work: amzn.to/3Mn8fEq This SATA III data cable should work: amzn.to/3FDLR5K The power cable is smaller but has a bigger connector, so I'm not sure which you needed, that's why I'm posting both. I guess I was fortunate mine had them already installed and ready.

[@Happy-Trails-To-You]

Great video. Just purchased a refurbished Envy from Amazon which has the installed 1TB drive like yours. I want to take my SSD out of my existing HP Pavilion desktop and use it as a 2nd drive. I was hoping to be able to leave all my files (pictures, music, videos, documents) on the SSD, but not sure I will be able to if I need to initialize it like you did. Any thoughts?

[@workbenchz]

Your files will be fine. I had to initialize this drive because it was factory-fresh-blank, yours is already initialized/partitioned/formatted, it will be just like moving a floppy disk between computers.

[@Happy-Trails-To-You]

Thank you for the prompt response. With the price of SSDs these days, I will probably just buy a 1 or 2 TB drive and put it my new computer. I can transfer my existing files to an external drive and then put into my new computer, that way I do not lose the OS for my old computer which I will give to my wife (hers is even older). Again, I appreciate your doing this video. Very helpful. Especially figuring out how to take those brackets off.@@workbenchz

[@bigboicreme]

i added a new drive and now it wont boot when the drive is plugged in (note i also upgraded to a 400w power supply) PLease help :(

[@workbenchz]

Does it go through POST and report a non-bootable drive? IF YES: boot into BIOS and change the boot order so that your old drive is before the new one. IF NO: it tries to power on but never attempts POST while the new drive is connected but boots fine without the new drive - the new drive has a hardware defect in the controller and needs to be replaced by the vendor under warranty. That's the best I can do without seeing it for myself.

[@bigboicreme]

@workbenchz sorry I figured it out, it was a hardware issue 😔 thank you for the response!

[@Vector_Ze]

Not certain what kind of birds they were (crows?), but they added to the video.

[@workbenchz]

LOL, Birds, Motorcycles, Lawnmowers, always something.

[@raveyqm]

Is it possible to move the operating system to the 4 TB drive and use that as your primary C Dr.?

[@workbenchz]

Possible? yes, there are plenty of software utilities for transferring a bootable copy of the C: drive onto the D: drive. Then you would use the motherboard bios setup menu to designate the D: drive as the boot drive. But the NVMe M.2 connection for the C: drive is 7x to 35x faster than the SATA III, so I'm choosing to use the D: drive for data and the C: drive for the OS.

[@zeroturn7091]

Does the motherboard have 3 SATA data ports? Just wondering because you could mount two HDDs and a SATA SSD if you delete the ODD, or two SATA SSDs in a caddy + 1 HDD (and another SSD if you delete the ODD).

[@workbenchz]

My motherboard does have 3 SATA ports, #1 is occupied by the Optical disk. You could remove the optical drive and put a 3rd SATA drive in if that's what you need. I'd probably go for network attached storage instead.

[@motiongraphicstudent]

Is this motherboard supports nvme ssd

[@workbenchz]

Yes, my HP Envy's motherboard supports NVMe (NonVolitale Memory Express) for the M.2 PCIe socket on the motherboard (2:51 in this video). The second drive I'm connecting is using SATA3.