Please Help Me With My T22 and New Hardware Questions

[sdmahr]

Please help. I am unfamiliar with what I should be looking for in order to burn CD's, etc. What new hardware should I be looking for that will work best with the T22 Laptop I have. I can only read CD's right now. I am looking at some offers on ebay. Doe this description look like something that would be a good buy?
IBM T20 T21 T22 T23 T30 CDRW/DVD CD-RW/DVD COMBO DRIVE for $137 or how about this one:
IBM 8x DVD±RW DVDRW ThinkPad R30 R31 R32 X20 X21 X22 for $110?
Someone told me there were problems with these. Can anyone shed any light on this for me? I really want to make a wise choice that will help me really utilize my laptop properly, etc.
Thanks! Susan

[lithium726]

both are ultrabay2000 drives. either will work just fine, the "IBM T20 T21 T22 T23 T30 CDRW/DVD CD-RW/DVD COMBO DRIVE for $137" reads DVDs and burns CDs, and the "IBM 8x DVD±RW DVDRW ThinkPad R30 R31 R32 X20 X21 X22 for $110" burns both cd's and dvd's.

of the two, i would take the $110 one.

[sdmahr]

That was so nice of you to respond so quickly! Susan

[tfflivemb2]

If you check the For Sale/Want to Buy Conference in this forum, you will see that Orevin has two CDRW/DVD drives that will work in your system for $40 each.

[Nolonemo]

both are ultrabay2000 drives. either will work just fine, the "IBM T20 T21 T22 T23 T30 CDRW/DVD CD-RW/DVD COMBO DRIVE for $137" reads DVDs and burns CDs, and the "IBM 8x DVD±RW DVDRW ThinkPad R30 R31 R32 X20 X21 X22 for $110" burns both cd's and dvd's.

of the two, i would take the $110 one.

I would spend less and get the NEC drives that have been mentioned on the forum, now $70 shipped free, new, faster, plus no ebay gambling.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827152069