I'm working a new Skylake build with a z170 motherboard. I want a DVD-RW drive for it. I already have two old, but good DVD-RW drives. The problem is one is an 5.25 IDE DVD-RW drive and the other its a 2.5 laptop SATA DVD-RW drive.
Old SATA laptop DVD-RW drive:
From an old Dell Inspirion E1505 laptop. I shorted out the mobo by spilling water on it, but I'm pretty sure the DVD drive is still good. I was looking at getting an cheap enclosure for it and having a nice portable external DVD drive. However, I was wondering if laptop DVD drives are all a standard size, how well these enclosures tend to work and whether they require special drivers and if they will work in all OSes (I use a lot of Linux stuff).
Old 5.25 IDE Desktop DVD-RW drive:
I'm more certain this works. It's a NEC ND-3550 Black 16x DVD Burner. Could I just get some sort of IDE-SATA adapter for the back of the drive and put it in my system? I've always been wary of IDE-SATA adapters. Would it do anything to read/write speed or reliability? Would I be better off finding an USB external enclosure for the DVD-RW drive instead?
How good are these options? What is the best option and why? I know I might not actually save that much money compared to just buying a new drive. Definitely say if you think I should just bite-the-bullet and get a new drive. However, please still comment on how effective/viable these other options are. I'm still very curious about all of them regardless of any price difference.
Thanks.
Old SATA laptop DVD-RW drive:
From an old Dell Inspirion E1505 laptop. I shorted out the mobo by spilling water on it, but I'm pretty sure the DVD drive is still good. I was looking at getting an cheap enclosure for it and having a nice portable external DVD drive. However, I was wondering if laptop DVD drives are all a standard size, how well these enclosures tend to work and whether they require special drivers and if they will work in all OSes (I use a lot of Linux stuff).
Old 5.25 IDE Desktop DVD-RW drive:
I'm more certain this works. It's a NEC ND-3550 Black 16x DVD Burner. Could I just get some sort of IDE-SATA adapter for the back of the drive and put it in my system? I've always been wary of IDE-SATA adapters. Would it do anything to read/write speed or reliability? Would I be better off finding an USB external enclosure for the DVD-RW drive instead?
How good are these options? What is the best option and why? I know I might not actually save that much money compared to just buying a new drive. Definitely say if you think I should just bite-the-bullet and get a new drive. However, please still comment on how effective/viable these other options are. I'm still very curious about all of them regardless of any price difference.
Thanks.
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