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 ...

More and more lightweight laptops and netbooks are shipping sans optical drives. Don't buy an external drive for for $50+ for those few times you need it, turn an old USB HDD enclosure and DVD drive ...

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 ...

Zalman has a solid device with the VE350. Improved over the previous solution, this device is capable of storing your data and managing your ISO files. Zalman, while known mostly for its cooling ...

DockCase, best known for their integrated MacBook hubs and cases, has returned with a new external USB-C enclosure for SSDs. They previously launched an enclosure for M.2 drives, but their latest two ...

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 ...