where can i buy a power supply for external harddrive

ray27

i have a freecom hard drive xl 1tb, and the powert supply is no longer working, and i whish to purchase a new one (i have included a link to show you which power supply i require) the power requirments are: 5V/2.0 A, 12V/2.0A does anybody know of any shops in dublin were i could buy one of these, or a similar one. I live in dublin. Any help would be great. Thanks.
http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3986&CatID=8040&sCatID=1146390&ssCatID=1146390

Carlow52

ray27 wrote: »

i have a freecom hard drive xl 1tb, and the powert supply is no longer working, and i whish to purchase a new one (i have included a link to show you which power supply i require) the power requirments are: 5V/2.0 A, 12V/2.0A does anybody know of any shops in dublin were i could buy one of these, or a similar one. I live in dublin. Any help would be great. Thanks.
http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3986&CatID=8040&sCatID=1146390&ssCatID=1146390

try Peats or Maplins or Radionics

Stoner

sometimes the eurovalue shops have multi range psus for 2 euro, otherwise they are about 6 euro in tommys in blanchardstown dublin. the multi select units will be the cheapest option for this imo

ray27

Carlow52 wrote: »

try Peats or Maplins or Radionics

Stoner wrote: »

sometimes the eurovalue shops have multi range psus for 2 euro, otherwise they are about 6 euro in tommys in blanchardstown dublin. the multi select units will be the cheapest option for this imo

thanks for the replies , i tried peats maplains but nojoy, guy in maplins said that the manufactur which is freecom, has done this delibralty so as 2 buy direct from them, i have tried 2 purchase this from their site but they hav told me they dont sell them separatly. its an unuasul connection as it only has 4 pins. the model number is ac adapter PAG0342. anymore help would be great, as i hav alot of stuff on this drive that i need to acess, is their any otherway i can get this drive to work whitout the power supply, i have heard that i can take it out of its orignal casing and put it into a new cradle with a different power supply, anybody no anything about this? i wil try tommys in blanchardstown. thanks

KoolKid

Tommy's in Blanchardstown is now closed!

Stoner

well without getting in computers, it is usually very easy to open a case and take out the hard drive and pop it into a pc or a hard drive case , you will need to kow if its SATA, or ide and its size, a standard pc size drive or a 2.5 inch laptop drive.

there are are all kinds of hands bits and bobs that will allow a hard drive to interface with a pc.

ray27

Stoner wrote: »

well without getting in computers, it is usually very easy to open a case and take out the hard drive and pop it into a pc or a hard drive case , you will need to kow if its SATA, or ide and its size, a standard pc size drive or a 2.5 inch laptop drive.

there are are all kinds of hands bits and bobs that will allow a hard drive to interface with a pc.

i know its a sata 3.5, the thing is the freecom harddrive is 9.5inch by 6.5inch in size, i have an external case for a harddrive but it is smaller in size than the freecom one (7inch by 4inch). i got it in peats were the guy told me that it wood fit, but as i hav said there is a big size difference between the two. i havent opend the case of the freecom yet, because i asume it wouldnt fit into a smaller case. i was wondering how big would the auctual drive be inside the freecom, as why would the manufactuer put a harddrive into a big case. any help would be great. thanks

ray27

finally got it sorted, i opened the freecom drive, to discover that was 2 500gb drives inside. so i put them into external caddys (which i got in peats foir 25 euro) and retrieved the info from them. and now hav 2 external 500gb drives. again thanks for all those who helped.