World's one and only external casing that supports both IDE & SATA optical drives It's hard enough to find an external casing with eSATA for your latest optical drive, even harder to find one that will support that new SATA optical drive. You will NOT find any other that will support BOTH IDE AND SATA! Why IDE+SATA? With market transition from IDE to SATA right at its peak, there are many IDE optical drives, but chances are the newest ones are SATA. So instead of asking yourself IDE or SATA... IDE or SATA... IDE or SATA... why not BOTH! With both IDE+SATA support, you can use all optical drives available in the market. Blu-ray, HD-DVD, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, Dual-Layer... perhaps you need to write Blu-ray discs with your notebook, perhaps you would like to use one DVD+RW writer as an external drive with your Notebook and Home-PC, perhaps your ultra-mobile PC does not have an optical drive and you need one... whatever optical drive you have or are getting, the AluBox eSATA 5.25" IDE+SATA2 will support them all. The only 5.25" casing you'll ever need Looking for 5.25" casing? This is the one and only one you'll ever need. This one's got your good ol favorite USB for convenience, eSATA for advanced users, and supports both IDE and SATA drives! The one 5.25" casing for all and any optical drives. For more info, check out the product page.