Yamaha 16x10x40 CD-RW - $201.95 Buy.com (with coupon)

[DaveS]

From Techbargains:
Buy.com lowered its price to $231.95. Use the $30 off coupon if you qualify.

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DaveS

 

[ALBundyHere]

So...Where can I get 10x CD-RWs? For less than 10bucks each! Are there any 16x cd-r's?

 

[SST]

I wish it's lower than that.

 

[globalempire]

is Waste-Proof Write Strategy the same as Burn-poof?

 

[kaiotes]

probably same, just marketing strategies i bet

 

[urameatball]

yamaha doesn't have any type of burnproof if I recall correctly.
but they do have an 8MB buffer which is MUCH MUCH more than enough for preventing buffer underruns.

 

[broadwayblue]

So, is there any reason (other than price) that I shouldn't go with the yamaha lightspeed 16x over the iomega (plextor) 12x. How does the quality of the yamaha burner compare to that of the plextor?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Bump for a good deal

also 8mb buffer without burnproof is not really much better then 2mb buffer with burnproof.

the burnproof is nice if you are doing many many tasks at once ..

I've burned cds at 12x with 8 copies of winamp open each playing a song as well as a divx movie playing, and web browsing ... and no buffer underruns. also, im running winME on a Duron700@1ghz. (also i should add i have IDE version Plextor drive (note the 2mb buffer as the SCSI vers have 4mb)

Burnproof is real nice ... The buffer ran dry a bunch of times ... and the seconday buffer also ran down to about 15% and no buffer underruns. I did notice the disk took about 1 minute extra to burn though due to slowdowns because of the burn proof.

also i've burned around 50 discs with this drive and never a buffer underrun. My first drive was a 2x mitsumi from January of 1998 .. and that would buffer underrun if i did 2 or 3 simple tasks ... perhaps cause i ran it on a k6 233. my second burner (which had a 2mb cache i think) was a 4x SCSI smart and friendly drive ... and that would get buffer underruns ocassionally as well)

burn-proof is a godsend imo though a large buffer is awesome as well