After market DVD+/- RW....Which to choose....

’m about to purchase a Mac Pro and I realize that I can get the second DVD +/- RW from Apple, but I was looking at some after market stuff. I was looking @ 16x Double Layer DVD±RW Internal Drive with LightScribe from LaCie. Does any one know if this will work on the new Intel chip set?
Also, If someone know of a better option, by all mean, fill me in… I just think I can get a fast drive in the after market environment then if I have Apple put one in for me. (I know Sony has a drive that works but are there others)
Thanks for all the help…

I also have the Lacie with Lightscribe (external drive) attached to my MacPro. It works well.
I'm a little disappointed that the solution to get the optical drive functionality working on a premium Apple workstation seems to be to ignore the superdrive that ships in the MacPro and just buy a 3rd party secondary DVD drive.
My MacPro (Pioneer Superdrive) will not read commercial DVDs, will not read many types of CD and is just plain unreliable. The problems with Superdrives reading DVDs seems to be a fairly widespread problem. Are we all on our own here? I have a MacPro at home and also another at work, and they both have defective Superdrives in that they will not read commercial DVD media.
I'd prefer if I could to stick with an internal OEM Superdrive - anybody have experience getting Apple to FIX this problem instead of us fixing it for Apple by buying extra working parts for these MacPro's?
Thanks
MacPro 2.66 with decorative, nonfunctional Superdrive Mac OS X (10.4)

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