does anyone have...
 

the yamaha crwf1 _external_ usb cdrw? i know someone who has it, and says it writes at a full 44x reliably. i have the internal version, but it really hurts my disc-to-disc because they're on the same IDE channel, so i was thinking about selling my internal and getting the external model. don't really wanna have more crap laying around, but i guess it might be worth it... just curious.

nobody has any quality hardware, eh?