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Question Replacing laptop optical drive, power consumption question

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missionalley

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I have a Inspiron 17R 5721 looking to replace a dead DVD drive.

The "new" Used replacement has a build date about 1 year before the original and is rated higher at 1.6 Amps vs 1.5 amps. Both are 5v.

Will this be an issue in any way?
 
It may even be possible to find something newer with aower power draw. There are also ODD insets in which you can add additional SSD or HDD to the Bay instead. I haven't bothered with discs though in at least a decade preferring USB options and now moving to thunderbolt instead for high throughput drives.
 
missionalley said:
I have a Inspiron 17R 5721 looking to replace a dead DVD drive.

The "new" Used replacement has a build date about 1 year before the original and is rated higher at 1.6 Amps vs 1.5 amps. Both are 5v.

Will this be an issue in any way?
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Shouldn't be. It's just a maximum rating, it's unlikely to draw that much in practice.

It -may- affect battery life a bit if you're burning something while on battery. But I wouldn't recommend burning while on battery anyway.
 
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