recommendations/experience with CD/DVD autoloader

As the drives are getting larger and larger it is becoming more of a
pain to submit forensic images on optical media.  Any
thoughts/experience with the following:

1) preference/insistence by courts of forensic images on specific type
of media (hard disk drive, optical media, tape)

2) pricing/reliability/recommendations of cd/dvd autoloader to automate
copying of image files to DVD's

Thanks

Glenn S. Dardick