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Using 3.5" HD enclosure with CD/DVD Burner
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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So a question, I know they sell 3.5" and 5.25" enclosures, is there really any difference in the chipsets?
Can I attach a CD Burner in a 3.5" enclosure and have it work? I know I obviously won't be able to really mount it, but it should still work, right?
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Well I have done the opposite, to attach an internal hard disk in an old Lacie FireWire CDRW burner enclosure (those gray & purple) it was kind of a emergence temporal solution but it worked.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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If you can get the CD burner in the enclosure, it should work, as long as the enclosure supports the same interface that the burner does. It's all either IDE/ATA or SATA, and drive physical size is irrelevant. I just think that you're going to need a pretty serious shoehorn to get a 5.25" device into that 3.5" enclosure. 
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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It's the same chipsets and the same connectors. Just rip the circuit board out of the enclosure and plug it in to your optical drive.
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