# Power adapter

I recently  bought a universal power  adapter from amazon to  power my
external 1TB hard drive. It came  with 8 different types of plugs plus
a USB  socket. I bought  it as it  is rated for  1.5A as was  the late
adapter of  the hard drive. The  original still seems to  work, but it
fails to supply enough power after a short time and the drive switches
off. I was terrified at first as a lot of stuff is on that drive and I
did not  have the time to  create backups for everything.  But soon it
turned out that the power adapter was the culprit.

Today I  tried to plug  the new adapter  into the drive  selecting the
most suitable plug and checking the polarity, but I could not turn the
drive on. So the adapter is not as universal as I thought. The smaller
plug simply does not fit and the one  I managed to plug in has no real
contact with the socket. So I have to use my old adapter, but that one
is only rated for 1A. I hope it won't die till I copy all the stuff to
another drive.