>How pricey are they?
Hopefully not very. I used to work at a CD duplication place and we had 100's of them in giant robotic duplicator towers. They were the drive of choice for exactly these sorts of capabilities.
When we closed down I pitched them all into the dumpster because at the time I couldn't even get $5 each for them on ebay. It would hurt to discover that they are now a rare and expensive find!