HP ENVY TouchSmart m7t-j000 Notebook PC - Adding a second hard drive

Product Number: E4S80AV
I'm having a hard time finding a SATA III cable and caddy for a second hard drive for my laptop. Any ideas? Right now, I just have an extra 1.8 inch drive I can't use.
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Hard drives
Supports 6.35-cm (2.5-in) hard drives in 9.5-mm (.37-in) and 7.0-mm (.28-in) thicknesses (all hard drives use the same bracket)
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Serial ATA
Supports the following hard drives:
● 1-TB 5400-rpm, 9.5-mm
● 750-GB 5400-rpm 9.5-mm
● 500-GB 5400-rpm 9.5-mm and 7.0-mm
Dual hard-drive configurations:
● 2TB: (1-TB 5400-rpm x 2)
● 1500GB: (750-GB 5400-rpm x 2)
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Hello All,
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Again, Thanks.
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I bought my caddy from the place recommended and got everything needed including screws !
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Because of the physical limits of the cable itself, the one jumpered as Slave must be on top, else the connectors won't reach to the proper drive.
Which drive is jumpered as which is your choice, but the one jumpered as Slave must be on top.
If I switch the position of my original drive will I lose access to the data on it?
No.
The designation of Master or Slave is, for the most part, simply to allow the Mac to have a unique physical address for each drive, so it can tell one from the other (this is separate from the pathname addressing that the OS uses). Re-jumpering a drive nor changing its physical location will not affect its contents nor their usability.
One result that may be important sometime is when the machine in question is set up as the Target machine in a firewire Target Disk Mode arrangement - only the drive jumpered as Master will be visible on the Host machine.
Article #58583 - Firewire Target Disk Mode

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