advice in buying an external dvd rewriter

[thecrock]

My friend has bought a new pc and wants to add a new dvd burner to his set-up, the pc is still well within warranty so he doesn't want to go tinkering around inside and voiding it. What he wants is something to plug into usb ports and be able to write for most standalone dvd players, anybody have any suggestions?

[Laraul]

My friend has bought a new pc and wants to add a new dvd burner to his set-up, the pc is still well within warranty so he doesn't want to go tinkering around inside and voiding it. What he wants is something to plug into usb ports and be able to write for most standalone dvd players, anybody have any suggestions?

You could just by an internal drive and an external encloser. Find the best rated internal drive and use that. BTW your friend does have FireWire right? I would use that rather than USB. FireWire delivers more data rates than USB and doesn't tax the CPU as much. And FireWire drives don't terminate the chain like USB devices.