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I work in a small manufacturing company that uses a single robotic DVD duplicator for all of our software releases. We've replaced the drive twice with whatever was available on the shelf at Office Max. So far, all three drives lasted upwards to 10,000 burns running nearly non-stop for 6 to 12 hours per day in a relatively dusty warehouse. We CRC every 100th disk and the a per-disk run when we catch an error. If we can find more than 3 coasters in a row, we swap the drive. They never completely fail. Some guys in marketing are still using the old ones.
Between that, the burner I have on my desktop at work, and my own two burners at home; If it works at all, there's nothing to worry about.
I figure, if it works for the first dozen burns, it will last quite a while.
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