Share DVD

Starfish · 16 Jun 2016 at 16:55

I'm building two pc's into a large case. Does anyone know if its possible to have one DVD shared by both pc's .. SATA cable wise.

I suspect i could do it, if i fitted a USB external drive in the case, and had a USB switcher. however, thats a bit .. meh

Both PCs are always on at the same time.

meandu229 · 16 Jun 2016 at 17:05

You can share a dvd drive over network if you just want to use it every now and then.

Starfish · 19 Jun 2016 at 17:24

The DVD drive needs to be inside the case.. so hooking up to the network, would be difficult.
Some sort of external USB powered unit, with a USB switcher built into the case, seems to be the way to go.. unless anyone else has any idea.....

K.C. Leblanc · 19 Jun 2016 at 17:32

Starfish said:
The DVD drive needs to be inside the case.. so hooking up to the network, would be difficult.
Some sort of external USB powered unit, with a USB switcher built into the case, seems to be the way to go.. unless anyone else has any idea.....

It would just been easier to install the drive in whichever machine is going to be on most of the time and then share it over the network.

http://www.howtogeek.com/114254/how-to-share-cd-dvd-drives-over-the-network-on-windows/

lude1962 · 20 Jun 2016 at 14:33

use 2 slimline drives same size as normal 5 1/4

Rozzy85 · 20 Jun 2016 at 19:53

Some motherboards support hot swappable SATA (same as eSATA but without the self-powered cable). You'll need to check in the BIOS to see if it can be enabled on some of the ports. Then you can buy one of these backplates to allow a drive to be connected externally.

http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/Mjg5WDYwMA==/z/518AAMXQtUxTc00u/$_35.JPG