I'd like to thank Elaine of Coolmax for providing us with the CD-510 External Enclosure for review.
Do you want to add another hard drive or cdrom drive to your system but you have run out of room in your computer? Or maybe you just would like to be able to easily share lots of files from one computer to another?
Well Coolmax has a solution with their CD-510 Combo External Enclosure that let's you use a hard drive or cdrom externally by way of USB or firewire.
The CD-510 Combo is constructed mainly of aluminum and has some plastic on the front and back of the unit. If silver isn't your thing the CD-510 is available in black also.
Included with the enclosure are a firewire cable, USB cable, power cable, instructions, and drivers for those of you still using windows 98.
What makes this enclosure interesting, is the fact that it can be used with a USB 2.0 Connection (480 bps) or Firewire cable (400 bps). On top of that you can either install a hard drive or a CDRom in the external case which make this unit very versatile.
Features
Model No: CD-510-Combo
Interface:EIDE to USB V2.0,EIDE to EEE 1394
Data transfer rate: 480bps(USBV2.0) ,400bps(IEEE 1394)
Compatibility: for HDD up to 1TB , IEEE 1394: up to 200GB
Material: All aluminum Frame & Metal Tray
Interface support: HDD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW, MO
For hard disk Support Hard Disk without side bracket
Operation System: Win 98 SE / ME /2000/ XP, Mac OS 8.6 or higher
Power adapter: 100~240V / 12V~1.7A
Cooling fan: 1 x 4cm cooling fan
Audio Stereo earphone
Dimension: 258 x 168 x 60mm
Weight: 0.95Kg