Burning at 40x would cause my mouse to stutter around the screen and everything would just seem vaguely "lagged". And if i'd do anything remotely i/o intensive, the buffer would start to drain and ...

Is having a 8 meg buffer on a dvd burner really necssary? I ask this because I'm about to purchase my first dvd burner and all the burners have 2 meg buffers. I manily have only used plextor drives. I ...