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No comment...the fast cdrw for the lowest price now!

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I just bought the 8x Plextor, burns cd in around 8 minutes (74/8 = 9.25 minutes). I spent $130 taxed and shipped. This 16x costs $219 before shipping and it'll burn cd in half the time. 4 minutes less than the plextor for $100. 4 minutes worth the $100? Not for me....
 
Frglss,

I can't seem to pull up their website at this very moment, my IE just keeps "opening page", I guess they've having bandwidth trouble or something, but I always find this site has good reviews on the newest CDR/CDRW drives, and they have had a couple reviews/tests done on the Yamaha lightspeed. They've given it a great reviews, but have gotten it to coaster a couple of times. With the 8 meg buffer though, they said it's generally very sufficient and were only able to accomplish coasters through extreme torture tests.

Oh one other interesting point to note, if you have a 12x drive and want to upgrade, most 12x media will burn at 16x on this drive, which should be handy if you're upgrading and still have media sitting around. If you have 8x media, it will more than likely automatically reduce burn rate to 10x or so, which is nice that it does it on the fly, rather than failing. So far I've heard only good things about the Yamaha, but I couldn't pass up the $182 deal on the TDK 12/10/32 drive.

divinemartyr
 
divinemartyr thanks for the link. I checked CDRINFO and missed that one. As far the 12x goes, I have an unopened Plextor sitting next to me and was trying to talk myself out of buying this.🙂 My link has a review with about the same results and I was just trying to remember if Yamaha was the one with the renamed burnprooof. No they use a variable burn speed to help prevent coasters.
 
Bought this for someone I'm building a system for. Even if he doesn't want it I can still e-bay this off for $270.
 
Sounded good until I heard "no burnproof". Eh, I'm happy with my Iomega 12x4x32 with burnproof. The extra minute isn't that important to me. Still a decent deal though, for people who missed the Iomega one.
 
It means the disc will be burned correctly no matter the system load, unless you freeze (CTRL-ALT-DEL) or unplug the computer while burning. Essentially when the buffer empties, the laser shuts off, and resumes recording when it refills. Good stuff. Kinda like this Depeche Mode + Billy Corgan song I'm listening to 🙂.
 
Actually, I did a ctrl-alt-del to close a program during a burn and it was still successful. Microsoft Office 2000 from an .img file.
 
ya I was about to stay i'm gonna stick with my plextor 12x of course, not sure if they have a scsi for this (i'm 99% sure they do) but scsi almost creates no coasters so the scsi drive might be worth looking at even though it should be well over like $300++++ and you still need to get a controller (unless you have one) when you can get a plextor w/burn proof 12x for like $200 give or take a few dollars. haven't made one coaster yet
 
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