[Profezzorn] designed some mounting brackets to house a file server inside of an external drive enclosure ... he’s using is meant for a 5.25″ optical drive. It comes with a USB to SATA ...

they have mostly been superseded by USB-based flash drives and external hard drives. Following are the major categories of optical discs in order of writability.

To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats write to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW Data is written to and ...