HPE 390 t: adding 2nd hard drive?

I bought the HPE 390t with a main hard drive of 300 GB at 10 000 rpm.

I would like to install a 2 TB internal hard drive.

Is there place in the chassis for this?  He moved in the same cage as the main drive of 300 GB?  Or somewhere else?

Looks like it's a white connector on the motherboard to accept the SATA cable.

Where can I get power go?  It's not like there is an additional feeder for a second drive?

Does anyone have experience with this?  Thank you!

I leave the setting alone unless you want to recharge your primary HD and run in ACHI bios mode.  This is the mode that I use.

Go to---> disk management computer management and expand the screen entirely. You should now see your new hard drive. Right mouse click on it and select Initialize.  Once the disk initialized, then you can partition the formats you want, up to four partitions.  Changing the cluster size would require some specialized software to partitioning.  Frankly, I would skip this idea but I am sure that your have your reasons.  Partition Magic used to have the ability to change cluster sizes.  You also consider the size of the track, so you can determine which cluster size that maximizes the space of the track, but then maybe it's a trade off for object size data.   This is a two edged sword.

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