Best solutions for my imac?

Ok so, recently my imac has been messing about. its decided it doesnt want to read any discs at all. Luckily, i had to have it sent into apple due to the recall of the seagate harddrives, and so i asked them to check my disc drive for me, to see if it was working or not. Apparently not, surprise surprise. so they quoted me £300! for a fix, obviously i was pretty shocked and immediately refused. So really i wandered what my best solution is? ive been told external disc drives are cheap and would provide the function i need (to read/use games/cds etc.) but i wondered if there are any other alternatives and also which external disc drives are the best out there? links would be great!
thanks muchly, myers.

thanks for the reply,
however, it might have been worth mentioning, im really just looking for a cheap option. in my eyes, all its gotta do is read discs amd allow me to install and run games and other programs/applications that i may use that involve discs. so really, id be looking for the best, cheap external disc drive. sorry to be a pain!

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