Vantec NexStar DX2 USB 3.0 External Enclosure Design for 5.25" Blu-Ray/CD/DVD SATA Drive, Second Generation of DX, No Drivers Needed, Aluminum Alloy (NST-540S3-BK)

Great piece of kit. If you have a suitable optical drive (I had one reclaimed from an old PC), installation is a doddle, and this enclosure is nicely built and works perfectly (on Windows 11 in my case). My main reason for wanting it is to still be able to rip CDs on my new optical drive-less PC, and it works exactly as I expected/hoped. My old drive still rips at high speed (I watched it go up to 37x in my first test). DVDs and Blu-rays play fine with a standard player app. The enclosure comes with USB3.0 cable, screws and screwdriver to secure the drive, and rubber feet. The only frustration is that it comes with a US plug, so you'll need a UK-US plug adapter. UK mains voltage/frequency is fine.

A perfect design! Mains plug adapter is needed, but easy to find. This is indeed fine engineering and the result is excellent performance.

Good quality, does the job perfectly. However, over-priced for what it is. Does not come with a UK power supply.

Solidly built from aluminium extrusion. Four nice rubber feet seat it firmly on top of my computer. It is fantastic for bringing back to life an old cdrom, and ripping your cd collection to Flac format. It does require a us to uk plug adaptor but the power brick does work on uk voltage and frequency.

Excellent bit of kit, as with most new pc builds these days optical drive bays are not a thing. Rather than buy a second usb drive I decided to use my Pioneer drive from my old build. Slotted straight in then screw it in place. The power supply is as mentioned USA but I bought a 12v uk plug power supply with this. Everything works fine, drive found straight away on win 11.

No UK POWER SUPPLY included. Had to use another one of my own.

It's a great enclosure easy to install the drive, well built. Comes with screws and a cute little screwdriver should you need it. My problem and if you're going to sell on Amazon UK it's a serious one - the power brick has a USA style plug. No UK adaptor even. So I can't use the thing until I get either an equivalent UK AC power brick or a US->UK converter. Either way it's more money, more waiting, and really annoying. Would otherwise be a 5* product, but this is really disappointing.

It's way faster than a external dvd drive. Plus it's good to install game based discs that because the read writer speed is faster. My external dvd slim drive is way slower it took 3hr to install GTA V. Where as it took just over a 1 hr to install with 5.25" internal dvd rewriter with this enclosure

snygg, stabil, Lätt att installera blu-ray brännare

Nice looking external drive case. Works perfectly. Power supply plugs in to a socket in the back of the case, instead of being permanently attached. This is an advantage because it allows for replacing the power supply if needed. I also like the fact that the USB connection port on the drive is the full-size USB 3.0 type B port that is rarely seen these days. Much better than that flimsy micro-B connector that so many companies use now. I use it with a Blu-Ray drive, ASUSTek BW-16D1HT. Well made. A bit expensive but worth the price in my opinion.

Well impressed with this. You just plug in the SATA cable that comes with the device then slot the drive in until flush. Plug and play USB, works great. Very stylish too, it's made of a nice metallic finish so it's a solid quality product.

Front and rear frames are made of plastic. Just the body itself is made of aluminum. Positive: The case also fits for longer DVD or Blu-ray drives. In regard of shipping to EU countries the provided power supply unit, which is not suitable for EU power connections, has to be substituted which generates additional costs - just to keep this in mind.

Ótimo produto, serviu direitinho para colocar o drive de DVD/Blu-ray da Pioneer, que comprei INTERNO, sendo que antigamente esse era usado em gabinetes com baia 5.25 (mas não mais, pois a maioria deles não tem suporte pra tanto, assim como não tem pros antigos disquetes). Este produto é útil para isso, pois transforma esse drive INTERNO de DVD/Blu-ray em EXTERNO, ligando na entrada USB (evitando que tenhamos de comprar modelos EXTERNOS de drives, que não queremos). Inicialmente tive dificuldade de entender como pregar todos os parafusos (o manual não é muito explicativo nesse ponto), mas assistindo a um vídeo da internet, entendi que os da parte de baixo do Vantec também o são com a chave de fenda pequena, fornecida. Feito isso, não ficou sobra nenhuma, o "enclosure" está exatamente como deveria ser. A única ressalva que faço pro VANTEC é o cabo USB fornecido ser muito pequeno. Peguei o de mesma especificação separadamente, com uns 3 metros, pois na minha escrivaninha precisei de mais distância.