Rather than order a connector he pulled the circuit board out of an old USB hard drive enclosure and connected to his DVD drive. Bang, recognized and running.

When connecting to the computer, most external enclosures for 2.5-inch hard drives make do with USB 3.2 Gen1 (formerly USB 3.0). The theoretical transfer speed here is a maximum of 5Gbps.

This enclosure features some means of connecting ... uses an older standard like USB 2.0. Make sure your external hard drive uses at least USB 3.0 (which is about ten times faster than USB 2.0 ...

We were also impressed by the SE920’s nifty built-in fan, which is activated when you slide open the enclosure ... desktop external hard drives. It’s actually the same Micro USB port used ...