Yamaha CRW8424SZ

Pros: Good burner - does its job - huge buffer
Cons: Had some problems with it being identified on reboot

I bought this to replace an older Yamaha unit (4x4x16). I prefer SCSI writers to IDE (until they come out with ATA 100 drives). This drive was a breeze to install. Simply open the lid, install the drive to the SCSI cable, power cable, sound cable, and...

Pros: everything
Cons: cheap scsi card

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...

Pros: Works Awesome, Fast, Reliable
Cons: Be Carefull on SCSI Settings

First off I own a small computer business. Talk about quality, this one is a great drive.. Speed!! Its amazing compared to my old 2x. And its so reliable I can't believe it.
I've gone through 6 Philips Drives, Those drives are simply horrible and on...

Pros: speed, quality, reliability, ease of use
Cons: none so far

I purchased this burner because my windows environment and registry was beyond repair, and I had to reformat my hard drive. but didn't have any way of saving my data. When I got it, it was a snap to install. I set it up as a slave adjacent to my cd rom...

Pros: Awesome speed,buffer and reliability
Cons: has a bug w/ one disk at a time function

Yamaha is soon to introduce a new generation of CDRW. Already you can find the internal version of the CRW2100 in the larger consumer electronic retailers. But according the German(you can click on England to get the english version) website for Yamaha,...

Pros: Excellent performance
Cons: None

It was time to replace the previous 2x Sony burner and in light of the SCSI card already being installed I chose a SCSI replacement. Other options reviewed included 6x4x20 unit from LG and an 8x4x24 unit from Sony. The Yamaha won on price from the Sony...