No....Easy to fit, basically it looks like an external dvd burner without the burner actually in the casei.e an empty box with a usb lead comin out the back, an basically it gives you an IDE port to stick in a hardrive, cdwriter, dvdwriter,wot ever ide device u wanna slap in. Once you got the enclosure just buy the drive an slap it in.
Theres a picture/specs of one
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You can also get one that plugs into firewire port.
You can buy one from
here!!!!
This way u r not limited to just a dvd burner but can also swap to an extra hardrive or other ide device wen needed.
Regards an hope this helps.