need shopping advice for drive replacement

[John H. Lincoln]

Well, my external, FireWire CD-R burner (Sony Spressa iLink, model 
CRX-120 E/X) finally gave up and died on me. I live in Spain, and 
getting it repaired here is not likely.

The drive never worked right under OS 9.x, and only survived in my 
studio because it somehow recovered when I upgraded to OS X. Under OS 
X, with Toast Titanium 5.1, it was a faithful servant -- but that's 
history now, as it refuses to be recognized by either my Cube, or my 
Titanium PowerBook.

Which brings me to my question… Neither Mac has an internal CD burner, 
so this is an opportunity to replace the internal drive with a disk 
burner -- but …

Which Mac should get the replacement drive?

Which type of drive do you favor: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD?

Which manufacturer do you recommend?

And who sells the drive?

Many thanks for sharing your suggestions.
John
============================
John H. Lincoln
Digital Media Designer
Mallorca, Spain