Firstcom External USB 2.0 Enclosure Case for Slim 12.7mm Optical Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Drive (Slimline SATA)

A good case and works in accordance with the specification on Amazon. I used it to house a redundant Panasonic/Matshita BD-CMB-UJ-120 DVD/BR player from an old Sony laptop which had failed (cannot even boot). Fitting was straight forward: separate the upper and lower halves, plug drive into socket at inside rear, fit front bezel (this is included), refit top, and fit a couple of screws through the rear of the case to secure the drive in the case.It was recognized straight way by Windows 10, but would only play audio cd's at first. I came back a couple of hours later and found it would now play DVD's but not Blue-Ray. I then updated my blue-ray player (Power DVD) and it will now play CD's, DVD's and BR's. Now happy, and I would recommend it if you have an old player. The extra power lead was not needed. Make sure you get the one with correct connector: IDE or SAT.

This housing worked fine, i installed a spare laptop bluray burner that i had saved from my old Sony laptop, the only problem i have got is that the drive i used had a Shaped tray end trim shaped to fit the sony,i had to remove the trim to fit the drive into the housing, and the housing did not come with one shaped for the housing, so now no end trim.

Out of the box it does not work, the adapter is not recognized by the USB interface. The adapter does not give any sign of life except the spinning of the disc inside the optical drive, that, is embedded in the firmware of the drive, when you power it on, it tries to recognize the disc, and apparently it does but from the adapter not a single sign of life on two different computers. So, for me, this is an expensive piece of garbage. Thank you FirstCom.

I do not know if the problem I encoutered was caused by the Caddy case, my old DVD-RW drive, or the USB ports I attached to, but I thought I should warn potential users.I bought one of these to re-use teh SUperdrive from an iMac G5 with failed mother-board.Removing the drive from the G5 and inserting into the caddy was a doddle. I attached the external power supply, and inserted a disk. This was swallowed, showing that the external power supply was working.I then attached the USB port to a spare port on my iMac keyboard. Almost immediately I got an on-screen message: USB device drawing too much power, USB poert disabled to prevent damage. However before I could detach it I heard popping noise from the keyboard (overloaded capacitors?) since when the keyboard has been inoperative.Fortunately I still had the keyboard from my older iMac. With that attached I tried again. What I did not understand is why it was drawing power from USB when an external power supply was hooked up. This time I attached it to a 4-port USB hub. Sam on-screen message. Similar result ... a fried and inoperative USB hub.Fortunately none of the computer's own UISB ports were damaged.So net result was about 50 GBP worth of damage, and I have a Superdrive in an external hub that I need not have bought, and that I dare not try to use in case I do more and even more expensive damage.Fortunately I had bought an Icy Box for my old hard drive, and successfully rescued the internal 1Tb disk from the odl machine, so I now have an extra 1Tb external disk, so my activities ere not completely useless.Anyway ... you have been warned. It is not necessarily all plain sailing.

Recently bought an ultra-portable and needed a DVD drive to install software. I bought this to salvage my DVD-RW off my old laptop.What can I say, it wasn't too hard to put together, just split the case open and insert. It works fine as well. Just plug it into the USB port and it recgnises it straight away. My only minor gripes are that the drawer sticks a little bit when closing (more a fault of my drive) and the packaging is wholly unnecessary (it's only a plastic box after all)

this is a good quality product that is made well plus it is good value for money and it arrived quickly

I replaced the DVD ROM of my HP -elite-book laptop with a SSD hard drive and I wanted to use this case that can use that DVD ROM as an external DVD drive , but it didn't match DVD ROM perfectly although it works

Despite being advertised as "slim" this was too big for my UJ 842 drive, the aperture being too big.I could have put up with this, but the case failed to work, and discs would not burn (the drive was a good one).Cannot recommend this product.Returned.