Fast but noisy (Yamaha CRW 2100E)

Member Name: edperch

Product:	Yamaha CRW 2100E
Date:	12/04/01 (202 review reads)
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Advantages: Speed, reliability

Disadvantages: Noise

This is Yamaha's IDE 16 times write, 10 times rewrite, and 40 speed read drive. It also does DAE (extracting audio tracks off CDs) at 40 speed. It doesn't have BURN proof technology, but it has an 8MB buffer, and some fancy gizmos to make it more reliable.

I have an Athlon 700 with an IBM ATA 100 drive, and 256MB RAM so I can't vouch that it works as well on lower spec machines, but. .
This drive is fast, even on Fuji 8 speed media it burns a full CD in just under 5 minutes. In the box you get Adaptec Easy CD Writer Version 4, 1 16X rated CDR, and one high speed CDRW.

When you put in a CD (any CD) it's noisy, very noisy, but what speed though! As I said it burns a CD in under 5 minutes. The audio extraction is phenominally fast, even encoding to mp3 at the same time only makes it a bit longer - I can take a CD and turn it into mp3s in under 5 minutes!

So, good software, easy to install, and blindingly fast, but a bit noisy.

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