Can another internal hard drive be added? null

Actually, there's an empty 5.25" drive bay under the DVD and one or two unused SATA connections on the motherboard, so yes, a second hard drive could certainly be wedged in there somehow. I don't remember there being side access to screw anything into place, though. HP probably used some proprietary drive carrier that snapped in place.

I wouldn't recommend trying. There is a 3.5" drive bay under the power supply currently used by a 3.5" drive. There's a 5-1/2" drive bay currently used by the DVD drive. You could add another SATA or SSD drive using the on-board controller and rest it atop the power supply, but then you couldn't close the case. Except for a temporary arrangement during a data transfer, adding drives externally via USB makes more sense.

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Actually, there's an empty 5.25" drive bay under the DVD and one or two unused SATA connections on the motherboard, so yes, a second hard drive could certainly be wedged in there somehow. I don't remember there being side access to screw anything into place, though. HP probably used some proprietary drive carrier that snapped in place.
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I wouldn't recommend trying. There is a 3.5" drive bay under the power supply currently used by a 3.5" drive. There's a 5-1/2" drive bay currently used by the DVD drive. You could add another SATA or SSD drive using the on-board controller and rest it atop the power supply, but then you couldn't close the case. Except for a temporary arrangement during a data transfer, adding drives externally via USB makes more sense.
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