There isn't much to consider. Pick the interface your computer supports: PATA, SATA, USB2, FireWire 400, FireWire 800. Pick a drive that supports DVD±RW Pick your media: DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW. If you're going external, just find an external drive. You'll pay a bit more for an external drive that has USB2 and FireWire interfaces than you would for one that is only USB2. There isn't any need to fuss with a separate drive and enclosure, plenty of companies make external drives. At this point in the game DVD burners are commodities like almost every other part of your PC, and a DVD±RW is typically standard equipment in new computers. You could buy yourself a create full of drives from your local PC recycler. -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100115/4b99357b/attachment.htm