In my book there is only one CD-R burner that has the reliability that I require, and that's the Plextor 820Ti. Atleast I think that's the product code. Anyways, it's the one that burns at 8 speed, so it's one of the fastest burners on the market. It's SCSI, has 4 megabytes of internal cache memory which = reliability and it'll damn near burn on a slice of pepperoni! It's not cheap, and it requires a SCSI controller on the side, but it'll burn reliably for years, and it's cheaper than an external drive! Another thing about the media that you burn on, is that it doesn't pay to buy the cheapest no-name brand you can find. Shell out a bit more on decent media, like Verbatim, Pioneer, Kodak and soforth and your data will last alot longer! The cheapest ones have a tendency to A: Produce more failures when burning, and B: fall apart and get scratched terminally alot faster than the Quality brands!That's my 100$ Hey, I do this shit for a living and professional advice doesn't come cheap, you know! Regards Ronin