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Blu-Ray Pc Drive

Is there a reason to spend an additional $140 just so that the drive was external? You could save about $100 by providing your own external enclosure. Also, I don't think anyone makes Blu-Ray drives (players or burners) that support eSATA.

So the H20L should have been the easy choice...
 
No they don't have to support esata but I can buy an external enclosure that supports that and put it into there.
 
Originally posted by: hennessy1
No they don't have to support esata but I can buy an external enclosure that supports that and put it into there.
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...which leads us back to the easy choice. Although there are very few 5.25 eSATA enclosures to choose from, there aren't any available that are really any good, and the money saved drops to about $75.
 
Ya thats true slugbait. I could always just use a hard drive enclosure that I have and just have the drive outside of it.
 
Originally posted by: hennessy1
I could always just use a hard drive enclosure that I have and just have the drive outside of it.
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That really made no sense at all. Did you just say that you would toss the shell of the enclosure just so you could hook up the drive to the SATA connector?
 
No I have a 3.5 enclosure if there aren't any good 5.25 ones I will just use the 3.5 one that I know is reliable and has esata.
 
The correct answer is "yes". You have to toss the shell of the enclosure. And having a bare drive hooked up to a bare enclosure is going to look butt fugly.
 
I think Hennessey1 missies the point - BluRay drives are 5.25", and it won't fit safely or well into or onto a 3.5-in case. If he can find a 3.5" BR drive - all's cool. I haven't found one yet. Why not just extend the SATA data and power cable outside the case and connect? I would prefer this:

BR
 
Sorry guys if I keep wording this wrong. What I mean to do is take one of the enclosures I already have for 3.5 hdds. Take off the cover and just use the back end and connect it to the drive since they have a esata port. Something like this


Here

Just use the control board part and leave off the case of it. It won't look as good but still will get the job done you know.
 
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