Best bluray drive for mac pro?

Some of my customers have been demanding BD disks and I need to either jump ship to Windows or find a bluray recorder that will work with Toast, BECAUSE DVD STUPIDOLD PRO DOES NOT SUPPORT BLURAY.
Should I buy an external firewire or USB burner or stick an internal burner in? Will Toast work with 2 hour .mov's?
What brands/model #'s do you suggest? Vendors?
Thanks!

Just a quick follow-up to my post, OWC sent me this email. Since everything is working fine with the SuperDrive disconnected, I will try this at a later date. But I thought this may be of help to anyone running into the same problem I had.
This is why I love OWC. As stated before, this really isn't their problem as the product they sold me worked prefectly before Lion and have had so long it can't be returned...but yet they continue to try and work with me to find a solution. All this with reasonable prices on their products.
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Now if that doesn't fully resolve the issues you're having, I recommend resetting your computer's SMC and PRAM:
SMC: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
The Pioneer BDR-206 is just as compatible with Lion as it is with Snow Leopard, so it isn't a base compatibility problem. I believe that one of the above solutions will fix this, but if you are still experiencing problems after trying my suggestions, please let me know and we will work from there.\

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