Use laptop power supply to power my NAS

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MikeW
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Use laptop power supply to power my NAS

Post by MikeW » Thu Mar 31, 2011 1:21 pm

I was wondering if this is possible, I have a computer with one sata hard drive and an atom motherboard that only use for filesharing. Is it possible to use the a laptop power adapter to power that pc?
Fanless power supplies are very expensive were I live and that would be a great solution. I guess I would need one with 12v and from there make some small circuit to get 5v and 3v. Any ideas? Has someone done this? Any link?
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b_rubenstein
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Re: Use laptop power supply to power my NAS

Post by b_rubenstein » Fri Apr 01, 2011 6:10 am

Its called a pico power supply.
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