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Summary: Pay attention to the reviews.
Review: Those who say this Recorder is great DON'T mention it's rewriting capabilities.THIS RECORDER DOESN'T REWRITE AT 10X EVEN WITH PROPER MEDIA. I don't care if it's a firmware problem or what. I've seen Goldstar recorders performing better that Yamaha's. I'm returning mine as soon as possible.
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Summary: 2nd Mac cd drive ?
Review: this is a great drive. although if you're thinking of using it in an older g3 or g4 desktop tower (blue and gray) as a second cd drive (to add the cd writing capabilities) in adittion to the internal mac dvd/cd drive. you will have to replace the internal mac cd with this one. you can't have both. either you loose the dvd capabilities or go without the cd-rw capabilites.
there is only one slot for an internal cd drive. the open bay under the internal cd drive does not accomodate this drive. it's for smaller zip or floppy drives, etc..
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Summary: great
Review: great burner, really fast, no ruined CD's excellent
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Summary: Noisy, miss-burns, DAE not as advertised...
Review: The drive performs as advertised in very few scenarios. I have not gotten my drive to work well with Win 2000 and Roxio, however works perfectly with NERO 5.5 The drive does have the annoying habit of spinning up with a lot of noise for the slightest task. I did not reach DAE of 40x, I didn't break 10x with the software supplied with the drive. However benchmarking software put the drive in the 27x range something I have not been able to come close to with any ripping software. Closing: The drive can perform very well when tweaked correctly, however it is a pain to get there...
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Summary: Great Drive, Bad Rap
Review: I must say after having read [a lot about] this drive, I couldn't NOT buy it! I just had to see how bad, (or how good) it was. Sure enough, there are some things you have to be careful of when you install this drive such as configuring the jumpers to the appropriate setting, and what have you. But barring that, the installation part was a breeze. I DID have a little trouble with the drive telling me blank discs were bad media. So, I called the INCREDIBLE support line at Yamaha, and they told me my software needed a patch. A free patch. So it's patched, and the burner is excellent. Yeah, it's on the noisy side, but I've alredy gotten used to it, and furthermore, the sound it makes is hardly dischordant. FYI, I'm running a 400 MGHZ AMD-K6 with 200+RAM and a 20 gig 7800 RPM HD from Maxtor ... and Windows 98 2nd Edition.
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Summary: Works Great in an ADS FireWire Enclosure
Review: Delivered quickly from Amazon. I installed this burner in an ADS FireWire enclosure and have burned both CD-R and CD-RW at the maximum speeds supported without any coasters using Roxio Toast Titanium.
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Summary: Mac Compatibility Issues
Review: Well, I bought this because it says it's "Mac compatible." As yet, I've only been able to burn data cd's on my G4. The Toast software (now supported by Roxio) says they're aware of an incompatibility and that they're "investigating this." I guess that's not much consolation to those of us who own the drive for the time being. I'm just trying to decide if I should return it or wait it out. Oh, it's pretty noisy too.
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Summary: Burns mp3's great!
Review: ...I gave the Yamaha a shot. So far I have burned 4 disks, all at 16X, all have been perfect... It does make a louder hum then usual, but it is not at all disturbing. It is only when it looks at data disks anyway, with music CD's it makes no noise. The only thing I note is that the CD-RW burn is slow, probably no more than an 8X...
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Summary: Yamaha 16X10X40 Is Horrible
Review: I have to admit that this is one awful cdrw. It only lets me burn from the cdrom to the cdr if I first burn it to my hard drive but even then it messes up and I get error messages. After calling tech support they told me that the only way I can burn at 16, 12 or even 8 is if I have to a cdrom with a speed of at least 72 and that only 1 company makes cdroms that fast and even then it may not work. To say this is an awful cdrw is an understatement.
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Summary: Works great, program is intuitive, but had to add software.
Review: What a deal,particularly if you consider the rebate offer. Burns are fast and accurate. Had to buy CD Creator Deluxe 4 in order to get "Spin Doctor", with that program I have 'waved' some of my old record albums and burned them to CD-R. You can't beat that! (Aug 10, 2001)
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