Sony is an excellent choice. I bought two Sony 830 drives for $40 each on clearance at Office Depot last month. The current drive is the 840, and it's equally nice. I bought the internal version for my computer at work (on their dime). It's based on current generation Samsung hardware (which is unlike past generations, in terms of build and burn quality).
The only other good choice is Pioneer, as always.
You can play with a LiteOn drive if you want (HP and Memorex both rebadge LiteOn), but the current drives are a bit more aggravating than past ones.
I did some drive adding/replacing last month, with accompanying research.
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