How to add a 2nd hard drive to DV7-3080US

The hard drive died on my dv7-3080us. It was a 500GB drive.
I would like to nreplace it with a 1TB drive and in addition
add a second drive. Specifically I would add a
SAMSUNG 840 EVO MZ-7TE250BW 2.5" 250GB SATA 6Gb/s
TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD).
Will the system support a 1TB drive and 250GB solid state drive?

Yes no problem. Use the SSD as the primary/OS/boot drive in slot 1. You will need a caddy for the 1 TB drive in Slot 2. Visit newmodeus.com to buy the caddy and for video tutorials.

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    Hi,
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