Not entirely certain this is the appropriate forum, but I'm looking for a good/reasonable quality enclosure to repurpose one of the optical drives (CD/DVD RW) I saved from previous laptops. A quick ...

Just what it says... I'm considering replacing the optical drive in my MacBook Pro with a 2nd hard drive, but want to get some sort of external enclosure for the optical for the occasional time I'd ...

This one nearly ended up in today’s Links post, but on second look we think it deserves a feature of its own. [Profezzorn] designed some mounting brackets to house a file server inside of an external ...

Turns any 9.5mm SATA Slot Loading Internal Optical Drive into an External Enclosure for Plug And Play CD, DVD, and/or Blu-ray Disc Burning/Playing Other World Computing (OWC) announced the OWC ...

One of the reasons I like Macs is that their useful life tends to be significantly longer than that of a typical Windows machine. This is especially true of the pre-Retina MacBook Pro models, where it ...

Life has to be tough for external disk makers. My local Fry's Electronics store literally has an entire row of external enclosures, many of them with the same features and all priced within a few ...

Whether or not Apple's flash storage pricing on the new MacBook Air and Mac mini is worth it, is an exercise for the reader. But, given the high-speed Thunderbolt 3 interface on both of the new ...