Help me choose a DVD burner for my laptop!

Ravoblex

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I just bought this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314535
and I'm happy with it. I upgraded it to 16GB RAM for some virtualization work for school.

I also need to burn some music demos to cd, so I'm looking for a DVD combo drive to add to the empty bay.

My question is: does one size fit all as far as laptops go? Or do I need to look for something specific to the computer I bought?

Also, I don't need to overwrite any cd's/dvd's so do I need DVD-RW+ or ... I could never figure that out.

Any help would be great. Thanks.
 
Solution
don't buy one that fits inside - but a self-contained external one. more useful overall. use the internal bay as nothing or as a place for a secondary hard drive using a caddy.