brands of cd writers

[bobbye]

Hello,

I am thinking of buying a new cd writer (I don't seem to have any
success with my current one although I got tons of advice, followed all of it, but still I could not burn one working backup).

(I have a 7501 psx with a 6 or 8 wire modchip)

I created a backup of "need for speed 3 hot pursuit" on my
friend's CRW-F1UX external Yamaha writer with Nero 5.5 and it
worked like a charm.

I looked in this forum for threads about cd writers that folks here
own and have success with them and with their burning software
to create backups of their games, but I could not find many.

I would like to start a new thread which I think will interest many:

What cd writer brand/model do you own, what burning software,
and how successful you are in backing up your games ?

Thanks,