Secondary internal hard drive to Inpiron 9400

I have a three-year-old inspiron 9400 with a mounted disk 7200 RPM 100Gbyte. Is it possible to install a secondary hard drive and if so any advice on how to go in this regard would be welcome.

Thanks Iain


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