Review on Black Vantec NexStar DX USB 3.0 External Enclosure for SATA Blu-Ray/CD/DVD Drive by Crystal Bryant

Designed to store optical discs longer than usual. I haven't seen this length in a long time. When I put it on my Asus external drive, it got comically huge. Otherwise it looks very nice, smooth on all sides, no sharp edges, don't know why one side is rounded, except to make sure you line up the drawers correctly. if it is not already assembled. These parts are near-lethal: heavy, sharp, and ready for a finger guillotine if you're not extra careful. While there is only one "right" way to assemble it, there are multiple ways to assemble it incorrectly. The drawers have a very thin slide that needs to be aligned with the corresponding grooves on the other side. Anything flat black makes them a little hard to see when assembled, especially since those parts are entirely internal. I managed to get one in but missed the other a bit, and while it was moving forward and closing almost completely, it didn't close quite right and it didn't seem very obvious. why. Taking it apart if assembled incorrectly isn't very easy so it did very little damage to the front cover and so I knew this part would never stay as it was supposed to afterwards as the only thing holding it in place , was - First, the plastic tabs were only holding by friction, and one of them broke off. However further inspection revealed the damage was fairly superficial, the electronics were fully intact so other than constantly replacing the front cover it would still do its job and I could maybe stick it on, tape or something to keep me from to annoy me. When I turn it on, I notice a blue LED that I thought was on. It was a bit overkill for this purpose, but Asus external devices have it too, so I figured I could get used to it. I played part of the DVD on it, but before it finished playing, my player on my computer just stopped responding. I couldn't tell at that moment if it was a computer or a device. I later found that it stopped playing because Windows no longer believed the drive was even connected? So I turned it off and on again and it showed up again in the drive list and I had to use it again for maybe 20 minutes then it farted again. I argued with it the next time I drove, but before I even got to the end of this film, I just couldn't view it in Windows Explorer. This combined with the fact that last time he ACTUALLY showed up and reproduced something. During playback, a blue LED flashed in sync with the drive indicator on the drive itself. This has never happened before, and certainly not, but the synchronicity made it appear deliberate, which I'd call a terrible design decision if it were. After that, however, I never found out because from that moment on, Windows couldn't help but see it as a "USB Mass Storage Device" when trying to turn it on gave an error. It wasn't an optical drive that I put in a different brand case and haven't had any problems since. As this case got VERY HOT when first used, it could very well have been defective upon arrival, or perhaps the case was not really intended for use with the discs you wish to play media on, which is a little different than simply data copy or write in. Since this was my first attempt and with such a result, I will certainly not buy a second one.