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New Philips CD-RW
You may want to do a little research on that drive before you buy. I had a PCRW804K (sold as "CDRW 800 Series") that disintegrated over a period of about 8 months. Usage was very light. I think the thing burned about 15 CDs before it quit completely.

A trip around groups.google brought up a truckload of postings of people with the exact same problem: output power calibration fails, the OPC area eventually is written full, and the CD-R becomes unusable.

There are also some references to it not liking cheap CD-Rs. Some people recommend updating the firmware, but that seems to invalidate the warranty. And I spent a day finding the necessary files because Philip's website is a complete disaster (built for IE, different paths onto the site lead to different results, claims not to know the CDRW804, ...)
New If you want a good CD-RW...
...go Plextor.

They'll burn on just about any cheap-ass Costco special CD that you pick up, and will read damn near anything, regardless of the scratches on the surface.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
     Looking to buy a CD-R or something for backups. - (marlowe) - (23)
         Sounds like you need a backpack CD-R - (Silverlock)
         Just ordered one for my dad. - (Another Scott)
         Flash: backups story, tape at 11 - (kmself) - (20)
             I've got a bad attitude against tape. - (marlowe) - (10)
                 Internals are really cheap. - (Another Scott)
                 That's not SCSI. DAT / DDS - (kmself)
                 DDS will live forever :-) - (pwhysall)
                 Cheapness of CD/RWs - (Ashton) - (4)
                     What's the shelf-life of hard disks? - (Meerkat) - (3)
                         Sounds sane to me. - (Ashton) - (1)
                             Being on the other side of the world and all... - (Meerkat)
                         The DeSitter method - (nking)
                 Philips CD-RW - (scoenye) - (1)
                     If you want a good CD-RW... - (inthane-chan)
             Interesting. - (static) - (8)
                 My impression is avoid OnStream, but others may know more - (tonytib) - (5)
                     AIT is really expensive. - (static)
                     OT: No good info, only responding - (broomberg) - (3)
                         BTW, did you see that Exabyte bought Ecrix? - (tonytib) - (2)
                             So, the question now is: - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                                 Well, Exabyte has already added Ecrix products to their site - (tonytib)
                 OnStream has real problems. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1)
                     Thanks. - (static)

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