External Enclosure Help Please?

[KingSeti]

Hi all, can anyone help me out with some external enclosures? I recently came across a good deal on the sony dru-530a, I know it is older but for $6.00 brand new still in the box I can't complain (working in retail has its perks). I remember reading on the site about some external enclosures and I was wondering if someone can recommend a good one for me or for sony brand, or links to some information please. I know nothing about them, nor how they work so I was wondering if there is something in particular I should be looking for.

[Capmaster]

Check out the drive cases a little ways down this page:

http://www.compgeeks.com/products.asp?cat=CAS

You'll need a 5.25 inch enclosure

Go with firewire if it's at all possible. It works better than USB2 for hard drives and optical drives. Buy a cheap FW card for your PC if it doesn't already have FW.

If that's not in the cards for you, then USB2 is what you'll have to use.

[KingSeti]

Thanks for the link Cap! I will check them out after work! Yes I have firewire and usb so I see I can get one that is both, just in case

Thanks

[KingSeti]

Wanted to ask another question about external enclosures but didn't want to start a new topic Would it be better to take out my slaved 40 gb maxtor (and enclose that) and run the dru-530a off the ide ribbon with the main 80 gb harddrive and then leave my dru-510a and dvd rom in the computer on the other ide ribbon?

[ViRaL1]

Your hard drive would see more of an advantage from being internal than your burner. Since its throughput should be higher.

[KingSeti]

Instead of starting a new topic I thought I would post in this old one, does anyone rip a dvd from an external enclosure with a dvd rom? I was wondering how efficient it is or if there are problems doing it from enclosure? Some stuff came up and I never got the external enclosure due to computer problems (it took a dump) but I am now ready to get one (I know two years later). I only have one bay in my computer (it came with a dvd burner) and I wanted to take dvd rom out of junk computer enclose it and rip from it. Going to start searching for a black and silver one to match my case. I will get the firewire and usb one.

[Dr. DOS]

You can do everything from an external enclosure that you can do from an internal drive. Sometimes the external drive may not run as fast as an internal drive. Also, I have found best success doing my rips, copies, etc from a dedicated internal ROM drive and not a R/RW drive.

[KingSeti]

Dr Dos, thanks for the reply. The burner that is in the computer is locked at 2.0 rip speed and takes like 45 minutes to rip. I am at work and I can't remember the burner, I know it is a Sony DW-U14a ( something like that, i know it ends in 14a not sure of first letters). So I thought I would get the external and put in my old dvd-rom. So let me ask, would I be better off to put the rom in computer and burner in external case?

[Dr. DOS]

Dr Dos, thanks for the reply. The burner that is in the computer is locked at 2.0 rip speed and takes like 45 minutes to rip. I am at work and I can't remember the burner, I know it is a Sony DW-U14a ( something like that, i know it ends in 14a not sure of first letters). So I thought I would get the external and put in my old dvd-rom. So let me ask, would I be better off to put the rom in computer and burner in external case?

50/50 really .... If it were my system I would put the ROM inside the the RW drive in the enclosure.

Maybe others have better suggestions based on past experience.