Asus M6BNe Optical drive

i hate this god damn toshiba drive, it was the only one the local store where i bought my laptop from had at the time. i currently am using the Toshiba sd-r2512 and it is the worst peice of garbage i have ever used (optical drive wise) it cant read DVD's at 8x (it never passes 6x even with a full DL DVD) it cant read burned DVD-R's on high quality media (Benq/Sony DVD-R 8x, can burn at 16x) when even i throw in a regular CD it will make stupid noises, sounds like it keeps trying to read 2 things at the same time and i haven't even told it to do anything yet. its access time is just utter crap. i can only copy CD-r's at less than 4x which is totally unacceptable since cheap garbage samsung 8x dvds can copy faster. its not my HDD since i can copy off it at over 32MB/s and write to it faster than 25MB/s.

with the sd-r2512
time to copy a pressed DVD = 24mins
time to copy a Burned DVD-r = 33mins (WTF is this?)

with this cheap garbage samsung 8x dvd drive (its old and i dont even know what the hell model number it is) its mated to some old desktop and im copying to a USB HARD DRIVE!!!!!

Time to copy a pressed DVD = 18mins
time to copy a Burned DVD-r = 22mins

since this drive is just a POS plain and simple i might as well just upgrade to a DVDRW. is there a DVDRW drive OTHER than toshitba that i can get for the M6BNe? i am never buying a toshitba product again even if i have to import something respectable from japan for 300 dollars.

on a side note, things ive had that are toshiba and that have broken down, toshiba satelite pro (went thru 8 HDDs, 1 LCD, 1 LCD hinge, 1DVDROM, 1 MOBO), toshiba standalone DVD player (completly died for no reason 2 months after i bought it, kept blowing fuses), Toshiba DVDRW drive (on dads laptop, can't burn half the dvd media i have where my pioneer has burnt them all flawlessly), Toshiba HDD's (worst garbage possible, slow, expensive, dies quickly, LOUD)

i hate toshiba once again

damn i shoulda waited i got the laptop in march or april last year i think... im going to try and order that drive from my local computer store where i got the laptop from, they are usually good about ordering anything in.

i would love to have a panasonic drive, everything i have that is panasonic in my house has worked flawlessly, NONE of the electronics has had any problems including microwaves (one panasonic microwave is older than me and it still works good), home theatre, discmans, dvd drives, TVs, vcrs, dvd players. all perfect!

i tried to search, all i came up with was peoples specs but no specific model numbers, although there is a model number in your signature