Thanks aslacker55, that may be the option I choose. Is this pretty much confirmation that an external DVD drive that can read Wii discs does not exist?

 

Just to save some cost. Buying an internal drive and the casing costs more than just an external drive.

 

The program only works on that kind of drive, it just so happens to also support it if it's external in a casing as well.

as FAST6191 said, you can use the case for other things too later, like an extra HDD or whatever.

 

Sure it's fast enough to work... it just might take longer to dump than if you had it internally installed. But hey, the first version of rawdump took 50 hours to dump a game! So even if it takes you 5 hours (twice as long as normal) you shouldn't be too upset.