I'm thinking about buying a DVD burner to backup large
data sets.  I'm also a bit skeptical, and was wondering
if anyone can comment on how well the technology works.
I've seen my share of poor CDRW drives, and was never
very impressed with re-writable CD media.

Do the DVD re-writable media work, or are they flaky?

BestBuy has got a Sony DRU-500A drive for $350(8-MB cache)
and a Memorex drive for $250(2-MB cache).  Anyone try
these out?

Any comments welcome.