Saturday, 3 January 2015

Can I replace a power adapter of 1.5A with one of 1A?



I have a Western Digital external hard drive that uses a power adapter to 12v and 1.5A, and it stopped working. I tried it with a tester and doesn't output any current at all.
Can I replace it with other adapter that is 1A? would that ruin the disk? would this work?


edit: The disk is a Western Digital 1TB ( model WDBACW0010HBK-01 )
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=240
http://wdc.com/global/products/specs/?driveID=886



It doesn't seem to show anything about current requirements here.




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