If you order the NEC, you're getting a bare drive and no software. Any thoughts on what you need to flesh the thing out? My main use of the drive will be writing out computer backups (pictures from my camera, etc.), so I'd need a tool similar to Roxio's Easy CD Creator that I'm using now. Do I need to buy a copy of Nero?

It would be nice to have some kind of fancier DVD-Video authoring solution, but it's not critical. I've got a Mac at home (I'm buying this drive for my work machine), so I can presumably just get the latest version of the iLife tools and have a better/cheaper authoring solution than what I might otherwise get on the work PC.