this question is asked several times a week. anyhow, lite-on makes the best bang-for-the-buck cd-rw's, but they're not the quietest. in your particular situation, consider lg and samsung.

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...

I've noticed some faster CD-RW drives are not writing at the same data rate all the way through, for example, the recording process starts at 16x, goes to 20x at 6 minutes and so on until it reaches ...