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 ...

I have a 9.5mm dual-layer DVD±R/W optical drive sitting on my desk (pull from my MacBook Pro) that I'd like to get use of as a portable external optical drive.<BR ...

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 ...