$58 for an old school DVD writer!? Are they out of their minds!?

I can't even remember the last time I put an optical disc in my machine. I don't think I will even have an optical drive in any future PC

I only ever use mine in the rare cases where i need to burn something. I have an external USB dvd-RW that i could use if i really needed to. So i'm with NZLion, i probably won't use an optical drive in any future PC's either. And if i do, it'll milk this IDE one until it dies.

not only is this a waste of time and money you can't even buy 24X DVDR discs anyways so what is the point apart from old school epenis mines faster than your's blah blah blah