@zyphoid,
I was looking at an external Lightscribe drive from Tiger Direct (where I have bought several computer items in the past), that they were selling for, I think, $69, or $79. I thought it would be nice to have for burning labels onto CDs when I had it connected to my MacBook, or Dell PC.
But, I don't want to buy it just for that if it won't work well on my EFIKA. I realize that due to the USB1.1 interface instead of USB2.0, the EFIKA will never be great at writing to any external CD+R/RW disc, and that it is probably stupid to think that it could reliably write to a DVDRW/+R/-R disc, but I want an external USB optical drive that works reliably for reading and is also capable of writing, even if it is slowly.