Late 2005 2.3. Replacement optical drive?

My G5 is coming up on 3 years old and I have started to look at new hard drives and optical drives just in case either of mine start going bad.
Anyway, I was at the Apple store today, and one of the genies told me my only option for a replacement optical drive was an external through Apple?
From searching online, all the direct replacement internal optical drives are no longer manufactured. What are you guys replacing your optical drives with as far as internal ones?
The genie told me the drive has to be matched with the motherboard?
Thanks for any advice.

Hi-
What a bunch if mis-information.....
Popular drives such as these drives will work fine in the G5. The DVR-115 from Pioneer is readily supported in OS X, and the soon to appear on the North American market, Pioneer DVR-116 would also be a good choice.
Further confirmation of what others are using can be found by using the Xlr8yourMac Drive Data base. Enter "optical drive" and "G5" in the fields and search.
Same with hard drives, Hitachi and Western Digital provide excellent drives, with excellent compatibility in the G5.

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