Add second drive to Vostro 15-5590 laptop?

Question

My Dell Vostro 15-5590 laptop came with a 256MB SSD. Is it possible for me to add a 2nd SSD? If not, can I add a 2.5" hard drive?

My existing drive is the Windows drive, so I'm not sure that I could just swap it out for a 512 MB or 1 TB SSD since my laptop didn't come with a Windows installation disk, nor does it have a CD-ROM drive. If I were swap out the 256 MB drive for a larger drive of the same type, would I be able to make a system backup on a USB drive and copy it to the

ejn63 · Answer

From the documentation:

Storage

Your computer supports one of the following configurations:

Dual storage (HDD + SSD)
M.2 2280/2230/2242/Intel Optane
One 2.5-inch hard-drive and one M.2 2230/2280 solid-state drive
One 2.5-inch hard-drive and one M.2 Intel Optane memory

Table 1. Storage specifications

STORAGE TYPE	INTERFACE TYPE	CAPACITY
One 2.5-inch hard-disk drive	SATA (5400 RPM)	Up to 2 TB
One 2.5-inch hard-disk drive	SATA (7200 RPM)	Up to 1 TB
PCIe NVMe 2230 Solid-State Drive(Class 35)	PCIe Gen 3x2 NVMe, up to 32 Gbps	Up to 512 GB
PCIe NVMe 2280 Solid-State Drive(Class 40)	PCIe Gen 3x4 NVMe, up to 32 Gbps	Up to 1 TB
Intel Neptune Harbor	QLC NVMe SSD	512 GB

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Add second drive to Vostro 15-5590 laptop?

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