sharon, check this out: http://store.yahoo.com/livewarehouse/piondvdvcddr.html it's the pioneer dvr-105 (bare drive for $259) and it writes cd and dvd disks. the 4.3 gb (formatted) space on a dvd would be good for backup. I have one that I put in an external firewire case but you can mount in internally too. I use toast (http://roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml) to burn my cd/dvd disks. here's a place that sells the dvr-105 drive in a firewire case: http://www.esbuy.com/piondvexusb2.html on bass, watt http://hootpage.com http://twfps.com > >Question #2: I want to buy an external CD R/W drive for my G4 and would >like recommendations for CD R/W drives too. I mainly want the R/W drive >so I can do backups of my G4 to a CD disk. >