Anyone using LaCie d2 DVD burner with mini?

I am considering a mini with 1g ram and a 23" moniter. I've been reading that some external DVD burners are significantly faster the the superdrive in the mini. I'm looking at the LaCie because it also burns labels and includes Toast 6, which I must have to burn multipe sessions. Also, it will enable me to burn dbbl layers and can be used with other computers we have. Anyone have experience with this?

Karen,
You do not have to buy Toast to burn multiple sessions using a built in drive - it is possible with the software Apple provide (Disk Utility). There are, however, other advantages of Toast which make it well worth obtaining. Toast doesn't have to build a disk image before it starts burning the CD/DVD, which Apple's software must do - this is particularly significant when writing DVDs on the Mini because duplicating 4.7 GB of data on the computer's less-than-speedy hard drive adds ~25 minutes to the time taken to burn the disk. Secondly, the ability to select a specific disk format in Toast, in my case ISO9660, is indispensable.
For what its worth my Mini, with a SuperDrive, can burn a full DVD in ~16 minutes using Toast, or burn and verify in just over half an hour. I use Sony DVD-R media and burn 10-20 disks a week.
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