Which drive should I get?

I discovered this morning that my iMac internal CD drive (superdrive) is broken. The computer does not see it and it won't take CD's and I can only assume that it has finally died.
Can anyone recommend a new internal CD drive (burning also) that I can install myself for my iMac G5 (10.4.11)
Thanks,
Julian

I have a MBP (first gen. unibody) that has a 320Gb drive as well. For primary backup, I have an OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro firewire 800 1TB drive that works really well. It is actually partitioned with a ~320GB partition for a full bootable clone (which I update weekly or so) and then the rest for TM. With TM, I can go back several months for most things (much more for things that don't change often), and with the clone, I have a bootable clone right there if I ever need to boot to my desktop and all my stuff from an external source. The drive is about $180, but well worth it - firewire 800 (and it has 32MB cache) is noticeably faster then my older backup drive (a WD MyBook 1TB USB2 drive, which is now just general storage).
Just my opinion on one way to go.

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