I personally think that those discs may be dodgy as if the laser was faulty it would not burn anything. I have bought 50 pack of DVD's before and had around 20 dodgy ones in that pack. Dual Layer discs can also cause problems when switching to the 2nd layer.

If your heart is set on a new DVD-RW drive then I would go for :

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=636643

I know this is a sata drive, but if you have those ports go for it, if not buy the IDE version. If have always used Lite-On or Emprex drives and never had a problem with them.