Finished my new PC except for one piece, the BR-Drive.

[Sean4000]

Question:
What are your recommendations on a BR drive with the following technicalities: reliable burns cycles, fast SATA interface, multi platform (PC, MAC, LINUX) support, and fastest burn speed. I have done some research but really want the opinions of members of this site. What I have found is minimal knowledge at best.

OLD SPECS:
800Mhz Athlon T-bird
256MB PC-133Mhz SDRAM
40GB 5400rpm WD IDE HDD
12XCD-RW IDE Drive
Geforce2MX AGP4X Video card
Windows 2000

NEW SPECS
Dual AMD Quad-core 2346HE CPUs
16GB DDR2 667 SDRAM
2TB (4X500GB) WD SATA 3.0 7200 HDDs
ARECA ARC-1210 RAID controller card
nVIDIA 9800GX2
TYAN Thunder S2927-E Motherboard
Xubuntu Linux 64-bit edition 8.04
22X DVD-RW SATA ODD

The ultimate goal of this endeavour is to have the ultimate system for my upcoming re-remaster of Star Trek TOS. I am searching for the HD-DVD drive but am ready to just go ahead and get the XBOX version. It is strictly for copying anyway.

I also have a copy of 64-bit Houdini 9 ready to go. All I need is Blu-ray to complete the cycle.

Thank you for your time guys.