T61 Slim DVD USB Enclosure?

[robert213]

External USB Enclosure for IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T4X T6X 9.5mm DVD Optical Drive
https://www.ebay.com/itm/272823332733/

The USB 2.0 External Enclosure could assemble your original 9.5mm SATA optical drive into an external USB CD/DVD drive, it draw power from USB port and no need extra AC adapter.

Would this USB Enclosure Kit be useful in making my T61's DVD Drive be used as a USB Enclosure?

Are better USB Enclosure Kits available elsewhere?

[FryPpy]

Would this USB Enclosure Kit be useful in making my T61's DVD Drive be used as a USB Enclosure?

NO. This is for SATA devices (found in T400, T410...) but in T4x, T6x we have IDE devices.

[Thinkpad4by3]

OR you could stop trying to frankenstein something together and just get a normal premade USB DVD drive which will probably work much better especially being native SATA not IDE and possibly coming with USB3.0