Yamaha CRW F1 CD-RW Burner

Pros: T@2, big buffer, the little extra something something.
Cons: A bit noisy, expensive, low seek-speed.

Introduction

Many people was pretty sure that Yamaha was run out of the CD-RW business after the failures with the noisy CRW2100 and the very little successful CRW3200. The surprise was therefore pretty big when Yamaha introduced their...

Pros: Fast burning, Yamaha Name, Audio Mastering and Disc T@2 (Tattoo)
Cons: Automatically slows burn process to 16X if CDR is not 44X

I purchased this drive from a local Best Buy when it went on sale to upgrade a very slow 4X burner in my computer. I initially went to purchase it just for the 44x speed thinking that the time to burn a complete disc would decrease to about 2 minutes...

Pros: DiscT@2, Yamaha reliability, Bundle software
Cons: Expensive. Extra software and features may rarely be used.

At first glance this looked like an ordinary CD burner. At a closer look, it comes with a technology that can't be found elsewhere, at least not yet. It's called DiscT@2. A technology that allows images to be printed on the unused portion of the CD-R,...