2 Quick questions
 

I want to buy the following.
1) DVDRW:
Read the buyers guide and you guys recommended the samsung SH-S163A. Is this available in BE. I went to samsung.be and there was no mention of this model on the market.
2) Laptop HDD:
I have a Acer Travelmate 630 series (2001)? where the hdd has gone to HW heaven. Can I buy any HDD and put it in?

Thanks for any advice

I'd say just buy the cheapest DVD-RW drive from a brand with a good rep, as drive speeds are at the point where they are not really the bottlenect anymore.

Any laptop drive should work just fine. A laptop drive is any 2.5" inch drive... if you get a faster speed drive it won't matter except to help performance, but you might run into size limitations with a board that old if you go 80gigs or larger. If you call Acer up and just ask they should be able to tell you definitively quickly and easily enough.