Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive enclosure and connected to his DVD drive. Bang, recognized and running.

Unboxing and giving a brief overview of the Hornettek Goliath USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure. More information at <a href="http://www.ThinkComputers.org">http://www ...

Suitable for 2.5” SATA/SSD;Supports Standard Notebook 2.5″ SATA and SATA II Hard drives Optimized for SSD, Supports UASP SATA III,Backwards-Compatible with USB 2.0 or 1.1 Hot-swappable ...

Fill the enclosure with as many drives as it ... Unlike internal drives (be it SSD or HDD), external drives such as USB flash sticks aren't designed for heavy data storage. They're great for ...