Ok, so I'm thinking of jumping on the DVD bandwagon, but dont know much about DVDs.

Now, I'll have to yank out my existing CDROM and put the DVD drive in it's place. I do a fair bit of audio ripping, so the drive has to be a fairly decent ripper.

Question is what do I look for? Go for name brand stuff? Or go for cheap stuff like Afreey, Delta, etc? These cheap ones sell for about $35-$40 on pricewatch now. Also, what speeds do you recommend? 16X, 12X, 10X? DO cheap drives affect video/audio quality, are they noisy, etc?

TIA

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Duron 700@850 (1.71v), K7TPro2A, Geforce2 MX, 128MB