USB 2.0 External Slim CD/DVD Drive Enclosure Case For Laptop Notebook CD-RW DVD Drive with IDE Connector (Only Case!!)

by Brainydeal

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0011TR71Y
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,887 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 21, 2007

Product Description

Portable design, using USB 2.0 connection to ensure the best performance Plug & Play with emergency manual eject. This external enclosure is using USB 2.0 and is backward compatible with USB 1.1. Most Pentium II, Pentium III and early Pentium IV laptops and computers have USB 1.1. It can be powered by USB 2.0. Some USB 1.1 ports do not have power and you have to use the keyboard connector to draw power(cable is provided). In most cases you can use both cables to draw enough power to run this drive properly especially when using it to write cdroms or dvdroms. Supported Drivers: DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, DVD-ROM, CD-R/RW, CD-ROM, it is a good idea to use your laptop slim drive for a Portable rom.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great, 3 minutes to install, July 6, 2009

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dougy ramone - See all my reviews

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This review is from: USB 2.0 External Slim CD/DVD Drive Enclosure Case For Laptop Notebook CD-RW DVD Drive with IDE Connector (Only Case!!) (Electronics)

This works perfectly with my old laptop DVD-RW drive. It seriously takes 3 minutes to open the box and insert your drive into the enclosure. The enclosure comes with 2 screws to fasten your drive in the back as well. Comes with two USB cables for power and data transmit. I have already burned DVD's/CD's with no problems at all. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate RC1, no need to install drivers, the OS recognized the DVD drive automatically when plugged in via USB. You can read CD/DVDs with only one USB plugged in as well. To be safe I plugged in both USBs when I burned a DVD.

5 Stars! Highly recommend using this approach if you have a laptop dvd drive lying around. A whole external DVD drive can be pricey, and this solution is super cheap.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars USB 2.0 External Slim DVD Drive Enclosure, January 15, 2010

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JB "Jerry" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: USB 2.0 External Slim CD/DVD Drive Enclosure Case For Laptop Notebook CD-RW DVD Drive with IDE Connector (Only Case!!) (Electronics)

I bought one of these drive enclosures to recycle an old laptop DVD/CD optical drive from a dead Compaq laptop. My new netbook (Asus Eee PC) , like all netbooks, did not come with an Optical drive and I needed one to install various software. Well after doing some different Google searches, I came across this one on Amazon. It Rocks. The price was great and I got a little joy knowing that I built something myself.

The Drive enclosure comes with the outer case , USB Power cord, and a USB cable. It also came with the drive face plate that, after looking at it, I was able to figure out how to remove my old drives face plate and the new one fit perfectly. Without this face plate, my old drive face plate would have hit the enclosure upon closing. I have not needed the power cord yet, but then I have not tried to burn a DVD yet either. DVD's and CD's work just fine. I am impressed with the quality fit and finish of this enclosure. It looks more like something tooled in japan not china. The instructions were all about using with Windows 98 and obviously written by an ESL learner. With communications at internet speeds, I don't understand why an emailed manual is not proof read and corrected stateside and re-emailed back to the East.

One thing about Slim laptop Optical drives that took me a while to learn. There seems to be two types of connectors. The old type which were IDE with ATAPI connectors and the newer style which are SATA. This enclosure fits the old Style ATAPI connector. If you don't know the difference, Google ATAPI vs SATA Connectors and View Images to see the difference.

This is a great way to re-use an older, but still useful laptop drive and save a lot of money. So before your scrap that dead laptop; Pull out the hard drive and optical drive and get USB Enclosures to make your own external disk drives.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars works well, April 11, 2009

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Robert E. Wood (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: USB 2.0 External Slim CD/DVD Drive Enclosure Case For Laptop Notebook CD-RW DVD Drive with IDE Connector (Only Case!!) (Electronics)

It makes a great accessory for my Acer Aspire One which does not have an internal drive. Very handy if you have a bare laptop drive laying around.

Another reviewer said his did not come with screws, mine had everything needed to assemble it included. I do recall thinking that it did not have screws as well, but finally found them in the box (though I can't remember where, maybe in the same pack as the rubber feet?).

Only took about 10 minutes to unpack and install my drive in the enclosure. The fit was fine. I got confused with the order that the adaptor board needed to be screwed in (the screws also serve to secure the drive to the shell), but then again I did not even glance at the instructions before I started.

It was definitely designed for a flat face drive, if your drive has a sculpted face plate, it may not fit without some trimming of the case (it is plastic with no screws up front, so this should be possible).

Once assembled, it "just worked" The additional USB power cord is a nice touch (When using as a read only drive, the extra power cord isn't necessary on
my machine, but it supplies additional power when writing a CD/DVD).