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Enclosure for DVD drives?

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konichiwa

Lifer
I have a laptop (exclusively) and I'm looking into buying a dual layer DVD burner...only problem is I don't want one of the slim ones that fits inside the lappy, and don't want to pay out the nose for an out-of-box "external" drive

So my question is, is there something along the lines of an external enclosure for an internal drive a la hard drives? EG I bought an IDE hard drive and a USB2.0 enclosure for far cheaper than it would have been to simply buy an external drive; is something like this possible for optical drives?

Thanks
 
Yes. Check newegg for a 5.25" enclosure. There are external DVD burners that's comparable to the DIY cost, however.
 
Only suggestion I have is that you dont buy the cheapest one you can find... not too expensive, im talkin like $30.

the extra $10 will likely save you a lot of time in the future.
 
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