External tower case with several optical drives

ASGR71 · 8 May 2020 at 14:25

Hi All,

Is it possible to build a tower unit with several optical drives that would act as a hardware extension to a computer, a break-away-box (i believe), with its own power and options to add PCI cards for different buses eg USB, Firewire, Lightening?

Preferably that is 'transplantable' to other operating systems from OSX to Linux etc?

Much appreciated for any help.
Thanks in advance.

Eliagon · 23 Dec 2020 at 17:38

You could build a PC with the above and remote desktop into it.

If you need to drive remote hardware through a local pc then you will simply run into interface issues - drivers are not designed to work like this afik.

andy_mk3 · 23 Dec 2020 at 17:43

What's the purpose?

There are dedicated duplicators you can buy, which is a tower full of drives

HoneyBadger · 23 Dec 2020 at 21:22

If it were me, I’d image each CD then create a VM with 7 virtual CD drives, each one mapped to its own ISO image and shared.

Skiddley · 4 Feb 2021 at 11:23

yes, i've done this. Search ebay for dvd duplication chassis. I have one with its own PSU. Attched to PC via external SAS cables (i.e., 2x4 SATA connectors).