DVD Drive Recommendation

Hi,
I'm about to order an inclosure (w/Oxford 911) from dealsonic.com and while I'm at it I was thinking internal dvd drive also. Will any of their drives work with my Beige? See link below. I plan to upgrade the processor early in 2006 if I can find a good Zif 1ghz deal, so if this'll be an issue with the drive I'll hold off.
http://www.dealsonic.com/cdcdrwdvd.html
If I can write dvd's on this machine that'll be a plus, but not necessary I atleast want to read them, yet definately want to write to CD/CDRW.
Or am I better off with another dealer altogether?
Thanks for any help,
Tony

i bought a Pioneer DVR-110D from a place that sells pc stuff for $42 with shipping i also was givin a pioneercdr extention that enable's burning with the built in burn support and itunes in OS 9.2.2 and used patchburn for the version of OS X i have wich is OS X 10.2 the drive works flawlesy in OS X and burns great with cdr/rw's and dvd - + r/rw and burns great with the extention i was givin for OS 9.2.2 it will burn dc-r/rw dvd + - r/rw fine and burns with iTunes and the built in burn support in OS 9.2.2 but there is a catch if useing OS 9.2.2 when the hdd fals asleep and you wake it up it freezes and if you put the system to sleep useing the KB and wake it up it freezes just set the energy saver no to allow the HDD fall asleep this only happens under OS 9.2.2 . everything works fine in OS X
here is a link to get patchburn for OS X (but make shure you get it for your version of OS X)
http://www.patchburn.de/download.html
here is where i bought the Pioneer DVR-110D (yea it say's DVR-110 but its a misprint they mean DVR-110D)the price is now $39.99 with free shipping
http://www.ichibanpc.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2721&HS=1
and if you use OS 9.2.2 i can give you the authoring support extention so you can burn useing iTunes and the built in burning

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