Power Supply broken? External device PS (NOT PC PSU)

Vanilla · 3 Apr 2009 at 18:42

I have a coolermaster external disk drive caddy. The power supply has stopped working.

Does anyone know if these things are standard and where I can get a replacement? I've tried a google search on the part number

Does anyone know what to do in this situation?

No warranty

PhillyDee · 3 Apr 2009 at 19:11

Try contacting coolermaster anyway. Or you could make your own. Do you need it to be compleetely portable? Because you could run it from a PC PSU. Failing that, find a 12v adapter and a 5v adapter and splice it onto the existing cable. Maybe put up a wanted advert?

Monkeynut · 3 Apr 2009 at 19:17

You could get one of those Micro PSUs for really small PCs, cannibalize the ATX lead into a start switch and mod the conenctor you need on one of the molex's?

IAmATeaf · 3 Apr 2009 at 19:41

Ty the bay, there's always the same or similar up for sale. 1 word of advice/warning is that that 4 pin connector, there are 2 (or maybe even more) that I am aware of and a PSU from 1 won't fit the other. For example I have 2 Lacie NAS drives and a WD USB drive, the connectors look the same on first glance but won't plug into the other. On a close pic of the plug look at the diameter of the pins as a first indicator.