That seems expensive for a 10 Gbps enclosure. For about the same price, this Thunderbolt enclosure would be 50 % faster. I have one with the P2 NVMe card as the external boot drive for a M1 Mini. Alternatively, there is this [10 Gbps enclosure (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Aluminum-Enclosure-Supports-Thunderbolt-EC-SNVE/dp/B08RVC6F9Y/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=sabrent%2Bnvme%2Benclosure&qid=1655771712&s=computers&sr=1-3&th=1).
Samsung SM951 Series 512GB MLC PCI Express 3.0 x4 Extreme Performance M.2 2280 Internal Solid State Drive
https://www.amazon.com/OWC-Envoy-Express-Thunderbolt-Enclosure/dp/B08LYQPRPJ
About this item Certified: first bus-powered enclosure that meets stringent Thunderbolt power requirements DIY easy: uses any NVMe M.2 2280 SSD available today and in the future Super-fast: supports up to 1553MB/s real-world performance1 Convenient: integrated 10.2-inch Thunderbolt 3 cable Gets onboard: includes back of laptop screen slide mount for safe, out-of-the way use
If you can tinker or put it together yourself,p I would suggest to buy 5+ year old hardware that has at least one 5 1/4" slot with a 4x or 16x pcie slot (you can look to /r/homelab as this kind of thing comes up). With 8GB DDR3 ram these float around 150 or so on eBay and if you need tp upgrade from there 2 8GB sticks will cost 60ish dollars (many of these systems will cap at 16 or 32 with 8GB stick being the largest stick). The pcie slots will allow you to purchase an disk controller for RAID or flash it into IT mode for ZFS ($100 last I recall). You can purchase a hot swap array for 5 1/4" bays (1 5.25" slot can hot swap 6 2.5" disks - this ones aroun 150 but you can find a cage with fewer disk capacity for less - 2 disk for example go for 30ish. If you need 3.5" disks you can get something similar that would slot into multiple 5.25" bays. I purchased one that slots into 3 5.25" bays that houses 4 3.5" disks ages ago). I don't know what your budget is but this is the direction I would go in based on your specs. It will be beefier than a pi and typically will be low noise but it obviously won't be as low power as a pi.
All these commenters roasting OP are the ones that need to learn the most here. Not OP.
There's a period of notebooks that featured optical drives - DVD, CD, blu ray, whatever. Useless today. You can get 2.5" HDD Sata adapters that allow you to install a second hard drive in that bay. Example - https://www.amazon.com/Protronix-Optical-Drive-Caddy-Universal/dp/B004XIUQYA
The short answer to "will using one of these degrade performance" is - maybe.
Some laptops support full SataIII speeds only on the main HDD connector, and drop to SataII or worse, only SataI to hook up the optical drive. Some early intel macbooks functioned this way, as did some thinkpads.
About the only way to know for sure is to look up your laptop's model number for the specs on SATA speed on the optical drive bay. If it's not an enterprise laptops, these specifications might not exist.
Personal anecdote - I rocked one of these from 2011 until 2014 in my main machine - a 13" macbook pro. Put a (then) expensive 64GB SSD in my main bay, and moved my 500GB OEM hard drive to my optical bay. Later on upgraded to a 256GB SSD and 750GB HDD - was quite literally the only person I personally knew with a TB of SSD-accelerated storage on the go. Back then, going all-SSD for that much storage would have cost two or three times what that laptop cost.
It's EIDE.
This enclosure has worked great for me. Just plug the drive in on the inside, and plug the enclosure into your Wii. Easy as pie.
This sub isn't for notebooks, there's nothing to build. I'm not familiar with this laptop model, if RAM is replaceable it must be pretty staightforward, if there's two slots then just add another SO-DIMM DDR4 4GB stick, if there's only one then get 8GB stick. If you want to add SSD there's two options, if this laptop has M.2 slot (i pretty sure it is) then get some M.2 SATA SSD (as i'm not sure if it'll support NVMe), if there's no M.2 and you don't need optical drive you can get optical to 2.5" caddy and install 2.5" SATA SSD in there.
But most importantly, this isn't going to help much with gaming, you can't replace the CPU and this laptop uses integrated CPU's graphics. Sell that laptop, save a bit more and you can get a good entry-level gaming PC for 600-700$ from scratch.
That's a standard 5.25" ODD. Probably an IDE drive.
You can purchase an enclosure like this and mount the drive in it, then simply run it via usb on your laptop.
There are usually tabs at the bottom you need to push in with a screw driver if you want to re-use the HDD. You'll need to take out the screws on the back panel, but that's just the first step. Since you said it's 10+ years old, you're going to need an external IDE enclosure, since modern computers do not have IDE ports anymore.
The HDD's in DVR units are standard 3.5" HDD's that are found in a normal desktop, your only barrier, (unless you also own a 10+ year old machine), is you lack the physical interface to transfer data off of it.
Just be aware, that while you will be able to use the HDD with no issues, (delete the partitions, repartition, and format), you may need Linux to actually recover the data. The most commonn format used in DVR's for the partititon table is XFS. Only linux can read this. And that's only if it's not encrypted. Yes, you can decrypt it, but you won't find any help for that here, as circumventing a computer system encryption (which your DVR is), is a felony under the 86 FOPA, and also the 98 DMCA.
Let's just say it's unencrypted, (so I can help you), you'de fire up a linux OS, (so you can read the XFS/JFS system), and:
#chown 777 /dev/sdXx
(sdXx being the proper drive and partition of your mounted drive). then just copy over everything, and re-format the drive for use for whatever you want to use it for.
Yes, you just need a tray to mount a 2.5" hard drive into a 3.5" bay.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingwin-Internal-Kit-Convert-Installation-HDM-225/dp/B0064VP70W
As far as data goes, just make sure the old hard drive is not set to your boot drive. It will still have all the data from the old windows installation.
You may need to "take ownership" of the data on the old hard drive because windows sees the data as being owned by the user from your old laptop. https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-take-ownership-and-get-full-access-to-files-and-folders-in-windows-10/
Since you're mentioning replacing your optical drive with an ssd, you would need an adapter. On laptops the optical drive uses a different connector than the hard drive.
Pi2 or Pi3? What power supply do you use?
Edit: In any case, here is one of those enclosures that are externally powered:
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-Enclosure-SATA-II-EC-TB4P/dp/B005EIGUD4
If it still works, you can use an enclosure such as this: https://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RX35-AT-IU-BLK-Aluminum-Enclosure/dp/B004BU6ITW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1485235227&sr=8-4&keywords=ide+hard+drive+enclosure
I got a laptop with a 1TB HDD in it, replaced that with a 256GB SSD, then swapped the ODD out for one of these adapters and put the 1TB it came with in there.
Note those adapters come in different thicknesses, make sure you're getting the right size for your laptop.
Best of both worlds at the cheapest price.
just get a case for your ODD that way you can connect it to any pc you want. This is a REALLY great case for the money. You can even buy additional windowed or mesh panels from their website if you prefer a certain look.
A little more expensive then they used to be but here is one https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-5-25-Inch-Enclosure-Interface-NST-530S3-BK/dp/B0093HKFYW/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&qid=1469537536&sr=8-1&keywords=optical+drive+enclosure&linkCode=sl1&tag=liquidretro0a-20&linkId=f7561f3882fb9c5e...
yep! I have mine in a Vantec. Not Nexstar. My bad on the brand earlier. I like the one I have but it has a built in fan that is small and noisy b/c it runs at full speed all the time. it's not a whiney loud, but moving air loud. It's ok since I only turn it on when I need to rip a movie anyway. If I really wanted to, I could just unplug the fan or cut the wires to it. It has a power switch and external power as well as being USB 3.0, so it shouldn't slow down your drive much if any. If you aren't doing this to keep a blu ray drive, I'd just get an external dvd drive. They're much more compact and quieter. I only got this so I wouldn't lose my blu ray drive when I built my ITX rig.
Alternatively rather than fucking with PSUs outside of a case which is a waste of time and power, just use an eSata or USB external hard drive dock. It may take a little extra time but USB 3 is fast enough. eSata docks should only run you about $40.
I've had this thing for like 8 years and it still works fine.
I have a TS140, and it has mounting for 4 3.5" drives, 3 in the lower area and one in a 5.25" bay with a nice little tray that they provide that even has cooling. What I'm planning to do is add one of these 4 or 6 SSD in 1 5.25" drive space to add SSDs to my system. Maybe this is an option for you? You would need to use one of the expansion slots on the motherboard for a RAID card or HBA. They also make an 8 bay, but I think the thickness of the SSDs would then come into play and may or may not limit your choices.
Addendum: if you don't want to return the parts you have, you could look at something like this M350 case. It should hold the stuff you've already bought, though I don't know if it's available in your area.
If you do decide to go through with the NES case, make sure you have a corded Dremel or similar cutting tool. As mentioned before, sheet styrene makes for a great platform to build and place parts.
SATA speeds should be faster than most external speeds. Unless you need to be moving hard drives around alot. You could also get one of these ThermalTake BlacXs
A six-2.5"-drive 5.25" adapter bay. It's been fantastic. Includes an AHCI backplane, so now they're hot-swappable.
I think this is what you're looking for:
I have two in my FreeNAS box and they work fantastically. Hot swap and all.
I would suggest the Thermaltake Blacx I have personally used it and I love it.
or this one for one hdd/ssd
The most useful tool in my kit is this: Zalman 2.5" SATA USB 3.0 External HDD Enclosure - Black ZM-VE300-B
This is an external USB 3.0 drive enclosure (no HD included) that uses stored ISOs to simulate a hardware CD drive. You select the ISO (stored in a special folder on the drive) and it then emulates a physical CD using the selected ISO.
This works great if the computer can't boot a USB drive and allows you to have your full score of recovery tools available instantly. Updating a recovery tool is as easy and copying the new ISO to the drive.
It also works in dual mode so that it boots with both an emulated CD drive as well as the external USB storage medium so that you could, for example, boot using Clonezilla ISO and perform an image backup directly to the drive.
It's not the most robust piece of hardware (the switch is pretty cheezy) but it's worked for me for 2 years or so.
I also have an ISOStick which is kind of the same in a USB drive format but it's far less versatile and not being kept up to date by the company.
I use one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Zalman-2-5-SATA-External-Enclosure/dp/B007B5Y4BI
It allows me use use my external drive to emulate a bdrom so I can reinstall an os or "cd only" software at the power of USB 3.0!!!!!!!
I was mistaken, it was actually $43 when I bought it. The product picture on amazon isn't great, but there's not much else to show on the front other than a big hole where the ODD will be and a blue light next to that.
http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-5-25-Inch-Enclosure-Interface-NST-530S3-BK/dp/B0093HKFYW