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Summary: save your money
Review: the worst drive I've dealt with. can't believe this drive is rated so high by computer review sights. first its sounds like a jet engine reving up & down. second bundled software is not supported by yamaha or roxio and dosn't support win xp. roxio dosn't have downloads to patch problems but will sell you newer version ... very disapointed save your money!!!
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Summary: Yamaha just won't listen
Review: I have owned the 2100 for about 6 months. This is the single most worthless piece of hardware I've ever bought. The drive neither reads nor writes properly. I sent it back to Yamaha with examples of the problem, ie. The drive will burn with no errors but the finished product is useless. It can be read by the drive initially but will give errors before before the newly created disc is finished loading. Yamaha claims to have tested it and they say it is working properly. They sent it back. So I gave it to a friend to install on his system, the same exact error occurs. This drive is useless and Yamaha refuses to replace or make good on it. I highly recommend that you purchase no Yamaha product as they do not support what they sell.
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Summary: I dont Bel;ieve it
Review: 2 weeks after I wrote this Review I no longer can not copy and birce CD's......It's like clock work.It was good till it lasted...
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Summary: Very loud!
Review: I bought this drive thinking I was getting a quality product from Yamaha, what a mistake. It installs without any problems & the software bundle is slightly above average but this drive is incredibly loud. It played & burned cd's as advertised but I couldn't get over the noise. High speed cd players don't need to be this noisy. I returned it & got a Plextor PlexWriter. This drive is whisper quite. In my opinion, go with the Plextor even if you must buy a slightly slower model you won't be sorry with Plextor's quality. Their's a reason Plextor's the most popular.
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Summary: Brand New Computer, Brand New Burner, Brand New Problems.
Review: I have a Dell Dimension 8100 which we had gotten for Christmas last year. Soon after I bought the 2100EZ. Installation was nice and easy, but it decided that it didn't want to burn at 16X. It would only do 16X. So when calling tech-support they told me that I was doing a lot better than most people were with this product and that I should be happy with 12X. You make up your mind whether you want this product. Especially with the new 24X burners costing the same price.
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Summary: Worked great...until the warranty expired.
Review: I got mine For Christmas 2000, and it worked great on my 466mhz celeron with 256mb RAM (I had to upgrade from 64mb so I could write at a speed higher than 8x). It was very noisy but I just figured that was how high speed CD-RW drives worked. Well after having it for just over a year, the drive failed to read/write discs. I thought my drive was just a fluke until I came here and saw many other people who have had the same problem. I'd only recommend this drive if you upgrade your system every year or so, because maybe you'll upgrade before this drive fails on you. Otherwise don't buy it.
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Summary: Great Drive...Fast...but alittle bit noisey
Review: I have owned this drive for about a year, and has never failed to burn a CD-R at 16x. Even with CD-R's that were rated for 12x, they burned at 16x. The only thing that bugs me alittle is that the Drive can get alittle bit noisey when spinning up, and reading CD's. If the drive was quieter, it would diffenitly get 5 stars. If your a new person to Burners...the software that came with it is good for average use...but like another person said...for serious Burning go and buy Nero Burning Rom.
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Summary: Ok burner!!
Review: I would recommend either SCSI or Firewire. It will work better.
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Summary: Quite content
Review: I have been using this Yamaha drive for about six months now and have never had a problem burning or playing since I realised its capabilities. I have installed this CDRW on an AMD Athlon 1.2GHz Socket A processor on an Epox motherboard. I have 256MB of RAM and use a Creative LIVE SoundBlaster card for audio analog/digital conversions. I installed the drive in a FULL tower casing so there are a couple of 5.25" slots between the burner and other components. This keeps the drive cooler; however, I find that it is noisier since the thin metal frame will vibrate a bit more around the drive. I noticed that during initial reads, the drive is a bit noisier than some others I have seen in action but, with a 40x read capability, one should expect a little more noise. Nero software came with the drive (purchased in Australia) and has been wonderful. I have been unable to successfully burn at higher than 12x speed though. Be aware that some blank CDRs may advertise up to more than 12x speed but that doesn't necessarily mean that they are optimised for that speed. I'm generally not that fussy if I have to slow down a few x's. Perhaps I should check out if there is some firmware available for the drive from Yamaha. In summary, this is a quality drive. The more technical a person is - the better the performance with some good tweaking.
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Summary: A fast drive, but it is picky
Review: I've had this drive for about a year now. When it works it is very fast and relieable, but it has configuation problems in 2000 and XP when you first get it up and running. The burning software that comes with XP should be enough for the average user, it works quite well with for data and music. But if your going to make 100's of CDs I would while running XP I would recommend that you don't install the Roxio software inside and go purchase Nero. With a little fine-tuning this can be a great drive, but don't get it for a novice user as you will have to upgrade the fireware and default settings to get it humming at full speed.
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