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.

The D8 Hybrid is a largely black plastic box measuring 8.75 ... up to snuff for a 10Gbps USB enclosure. Longer bars are better. You can basically disregard the HDD numbers in the CrystalDiskMark ...

The enclosure uses USB-C Gen 2 to achieve significantly faster transfer speeds than traditional SSDs using the slower SATA interface. For those wondering, the enclosure is fast enough to support ...