Excellent burner, and fast!!
Written: Jul 16 '00
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Pros: everything
Cons: cheap scsi card
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| justincorder's Full Review: Yamaha CRW8424SZ |
I purchased this product because it was rated # 3 on www.gamecopyworld.com on the 250-500.00 range burners. As far as I was concerned it was number 2 to me right behind the Sony 10x4x32 read. The # 2 burner was only a cdr, no rewrite.
It has a monster 4mb buffer to keep you from underbuffering and overbuffering while you are burning a cd. Roaching a cd is no fun, and a waste of money. I have not roached a cd with this CD-RW yet. I use only quality CD's also. TDK reflex , and sony CDQ-74CN. I would not use any other than that to burn. Ive used about every other cd out there. I am not saying that all the other CD's are not burnable, but I have roached alot of cd's and made coffee cup coasters out of them. With the Sony's and TDK's, not one coaster!!!!
Some people think that because it only reads at 24x that it is no good or not a fast enough reader. For me I dont read the cd that i am making a backup of with the CD-RW. I use my other 48x TEAC SCSI CD-ROM. It puts less wear and tear on the burner. A CD-ROM is much cheaper to replace than a burner 80.00 compared to 300.00. So i would also recommend not using your burner as the reader. USE IT ONLY TO BURN, BURN, BURN.
The only drawback that I can see with this burner is the SCSI card. I dont know why they do this. But all manufacturers stick these cheap 10.00 scsi cards in the box with the product (alot of the time it is an ISA card, and most computers dont have ISA ports on the motherboards anymore). It says right in the owners manual that Yamaha recommends using an Adaptec 2940 series SCSI card. Like a 2940 or a 2940UW Pro or a 2940U2W. I personally have a 2940UW Pro and a 2940U2W. I use the 2940UW Pro for my 3 SCSI 50 Pin CD-ROMS.This card max's out at 40mb a second, which is plenty for a CD-ROM and Burner. And the kicker with this card is you can run 3 devices simutaneously. And my external Umax 1220S scanner is connected to the 2940UW Pro. So if you have other SCSI devices get one of these.
Unless you have LVD devices. Then you need to get a faster card. And the 2940U2W is used for my 2 LVD SCSI 10,000 rpm HDD. That card will run 80mb a second. Remember you can not use the same bus for a LVD and anything less than that, or it will slow the speed of the LVD devices in Half, down to 40mb a second.
Recommended:
Yes
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