Yeah, I agree. I just picked up an AOpen 12x10x32 CDRW for pretty cheap and I'm very happy with it. CDs cost pennies now, and you can get over 50 for the price of one DVD. Lately I've been working with pretty massive files, my texture files run on average 50-100 megs in .PSD form. The renders that I keep are about 25 MB .TIFs. It still takes me almost a week to fill a CD though, and it burns in 3 min. I hate Creative drives. I used to have so much faith in the company but I lost it when my 1 year old Creative 4x2x24 CDRW drive started giving me track servo errors after only burning about 80 CDs. Their tech support sucks @$$ too. Cheers