Optical Drive for a Home Theater PC
Since you’ll probably want to watch DVD movies and burn audio discs, you’ll need to get a drive capable of both. We’ll do one better. The Pioneer DVR-A09XL (B0007M60ZK) is a great choice here and will burn both CDs and DVDs. It burns double layer DVD+R at 6x speed, single layer DVD+R and DVD-R at 16x speed and CD-R at 40x speed. With those blazing speeds, you can enjoy your creations that much faster. This drive has proven its quality and reliability, and it’s also known not picky about CD media.