The Trax Wayniac refers to is a rebadged Philips. I agree these are not badly made writers anymore, the 2600 was crap, but that was a VERY long time ago, when the companies were still learning. I know plenty of people who have Philips 3600 drives (or Trax 2260 or HP 7200 which are the same thing) and they're all still going fine.

A drive which can do everything is the Acer 1208A. It is also a Philips inside, and with CCD3 can copy PSX, SD2, Securom and everything else you throw at it. It's a bit picky with media (just writes crap if you use rubbish discs like the blue CMC at 12x), but with the right media (it writes Ritek and Prodisc fine, and they're cheap enough) it'll be as good as gold. You need to set DJ to TAO if you want to write DC backups with it due to a bug in DJ but apart from that it's a goodun.