Yamaha CRW6416SZ

I can’t speak highly enough about Yamaha products as a whole, and their range of Re-Writers is no exception. I bought a one of the 6416s series and it has been excellent. I chose the SCSI version and not the IDE because of problems I had heard about concerning the way IDE works in this area. Having looked around extensively, I found a great deal at Insight. I bought the Re-writer and an Adaptec PCI SCSI card to connect it to my motherboard. SCSI is much quicker than IDE and when ‘burning’ a CD that is important. You should get all the software you need included. Everything installed itself in Windows 98 and I was up and ...  Read the complete review

I have had this product for quite a while now so this is definitely an extended test review. Instaling it was easy, adequate instructions came with it. The software was very adaptec and very easy to install and use also. I have been using CD writers for years and generally don't bother with re-writable too much. Personally I prefer to buy a blank CD for about 30pence each and then write once and keep it safe. So I do not use the rewriting features of this product. For a while the drive worked fine and I was writing about 15-20 CD a week. But after a while it developed an annoying high pitched whine which does tend to get on your nerves ...  Read the complete review

We had to buy a new CD recorder when our Ricoh was giving us so much trouble that we sent it back and got a refund (unfixable errors when it was 11 months old and we got our money back!!). We really only wanted something cheap but we happened to come across this machine being sold as ex-display, no box or instructions for £99.50 brand new!!! Not bad ,huh? It's a scsi which seems to be the better option nowadays and we have had no trouble with it at all. It's reliable, copes with most brands of CDR including the cheap ones and we rarely get errors with it. If you can get one cheap, it's a good buy. ...  Read the complete review

An expensive peice of kit but it more than does the job. After having this product for a little less than a year, I am quite pleased with it. The 641S is a 6x writer, 4x rewriter, and a 16x reader. It operates on a SCSI-2 bus, which if you did not know, is a lot faster than your ordinary IDE bus, but requires a separate controller. After mastering a number of different types of software I now believe there is not alot that this machine can not do but for mode 2 software I advise that you lower the write speed to two speed. I was dubious at first but would now recommend this to anybody - buy. ...  Read the complete review

After having this product for a little less than a year, I am very pleased with it. The 641S is a 6x writer, 4x rewriter, and a 16x reader. It operates on a SCSI-2 bus, which if you did not know, is a lot faster than your ordinary IDE bus, but requires a separate controller. The swift 6x writing speed can burn a 74 minute audio cd, or a 650mb data cd, in ~12 minutes, which is very fast. I have burnt over 300 cds so far, and have not had ONE problem from the unit. It can burn DAO, single tracks, multi-track cds, which include both data and audio on one cd, and virtually every other kind of CD. The one thing that I wish it had that it doesn't, is CD-TEXT ...  Read the complete review