building external enclosure using and external hd unit

mmoalem · 11-03-2007

ok so i bought the benq 1650 and now i need to get it to work with my laptop. before i go and splash some money on a new enclosure i though i could try some recycling and use a generic usb2/firewire enclosure i had lying around to build my own box. now is this possible or would the external dvd units have something in their chipset that external hd units dont?
any ideas?
cheers
michel

**olyteddy** · 11-03-2007

To a pretty high degree a Case is a Case is a Case, so it should work fine.

**mciahel** · 11-03-2007

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmoalem

ok so i bought the benq 1650 and now i need to get it to work with my laptop.

Make sure, your laptop supports USB 2.0 high speed. If you already own an external HDD, do a readtest with HDTune in order to determine the transfer rate as there are some really junky USB chipsets out there. Also, these Benq drives aren't the very best in external enclosures. If anything goes well, you can't expect more than 12x speed.

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before i go and splash some money on a new enclosure i though i could try some recycling and use a generic usb2/firewire enclosure i had lying around to build my own box. now is this possible or would the external dvd units have something in their chipset that external hd units dont?

Try your existing enclosure at first. Retail external drives are sometimes equipped with special firmware or optimized enclosure chipsets. Some drives do not need this kind of optimization. Nothing of these is valid for your Benq, so go straight ahead and see, what results you get. As we all are curious, you may also post, what chipsets are used in your enclosure.

Michael

11-03-2007	#1
mmoalem New on Forum Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 8	building external enclosure using and external hd unit ok so i bought the benq 1650 and now i need to get it to work with my laptop. before i go and splash some money on a new enclosure i though i could try some recycling and use a generic usb2/firewire enclosure i had lying around to build my own box. now is this possible or would the external dvd units have something in their chipset that external hd units dont? any ideas? cheers michel

11-03-2007	#2
olyteddy Senior Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the present, the past was so long ago... Posts: 6,564	Re: building external enclosure using and external hd unit To a pretty high degree a Case is a Case is a Case, so it should work fine.

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