Voltage required

[Roger Dewhurst]

I have an external hard drive, taken from an older computer, in a Dick
Smith external enclosure. During a move I got all the transformers mixed
up and now I do not know whether this requires 12 volts or 16 volts.
Any ideas?

R

 

[Sjouke Burry]

Roger Dewhurst wrote:

I have an external hard drive, taken from an older computer, in a Dick
Smith external enclosure. During a move I got all the transformers mixed
up and now I do not know whether this requires 12 volts or 16 volts.
Any ideas?

R
Start assuming 12 V, it might be to low, but wont damage

the disk.
16 volt might "seem" to be oke, but cause excessive heating,

And apply stickers to the ones you can sort out.
It avoids a lot of worrying.

 

[Roger Dewhurst]

Sjouke Burry wrote:

Roger Dewhurst wrote:
I have an external hard drive, taken from an older computer, in a Dick
Smith external enclosure. During a move I got all the transformers
mixed up and now I do not know whether this requires 12 volts or 16
volts. Any ideas?

R
Start assuming 12 V, it might be to low, but wont damage
the disk.
16 volt might "seem" to be oke, but cause excessive heating,

And apply stickers to the ones you can sort out.
It avoids a lot of worrying.

Thanks. I am putting stickers on these things now!

R

 

[whit3rd]

On Aug 3, 7:02 pm, Roger Dewhurst <dewhu...@wave.co.nz> wrote:

I have an external hard drive, taken from an older computer, in a Dick
Smith external enclosure. During a move I got all the transformers mixed
  up and now I do not know whether this requires 12 volts or 16 volts.

Most disk drive enclosures route power straight from the
power block to the +12V (yellow wire) input to a hard drive
mechanism. Open the drive enclosure and check for
that connection.