They give you the ability to make a hard drive hot swappable and give you ready access to as much storage as the drive in question has. Kingwin in putting out their new USB drive enclosure, made the next logical progression in external drives by putting out a 5.25" USB drive enclosure. The ability of making a optical drive portable is welcome indeed. You can take your CD burner, DVD player or DVD burner with you and plug them into any machine with a USB port. You will still need software to play or record DVDs but that is a small issue.



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