DVD Burners

[Jon maddog Hall]

I have used the Sony External USB and Firewire 16x Dual Layer DVD+/-RW/CD-RW
drive with SuSE 10.0 and it worked great in burning DVD+R and DVD-R, as well
as installing SuSE off the DVD to a machine.  And it was FAST. :-)

Quite frankly, with the way that DVD burners, speeds and standards are changing,
I would not get an internal drive.  Just use your USB 2.0 or Firewire
interface to hook it to everything.

I am in the process of buying a new "desktop" machine, and I have specified at
least two of the 10 USB 2.0 ports and one of the dual Firewire ports plus
audio be on the front panel.  Don't want to deal with having to get behind the
machine anymore for things that are portable, like DVD/CD thingies.  Other,
more permanent things (like the dual Gbit Ethernet) can be in the back....but
other stuff just has to be in the front.

md
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