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Summary: superb writer
Review: I thought theres something wrong with my writer, but i find out one ram card is defective after i chnge it it runs ok. thanks God, Praise Jesus!
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Summary: Noise for speed and performance
Review: Ok, so I've read pobably 30-40mreviews about this drive. I bought thism drive before I read anything, but the price and timing were right when I bought this. I run a PIII 750, 256RAM, several HDs. Mind you I'mrunningna full SCSI system, no IDE equip what-so-ever. I've tested the drive on 2 scsi controllers, (1)PCI Buslogic Flashpoint adapter (2) Symbios Logi 896 (22910 PCI adapter). I've gone through probably 100+ disks, 1 or 2 miswrites due to data error (typically files in use or not available), note NOT BUFFER UNDERRUNS. The drive is noisy but expected, most noise comes from internal fan or mechanical gearing to guarantee drive spinning at 16x for duration of burn. Also using Nero Burn for all disc creation, ranging from Audio CDs, MP3 CDs, Video-CDs, data backup, direct disc copying and basically anything else one can do. To reduce noise try mounting drive away from other components and using drive rails to reduce external vibrations.
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Summary: Noise for speed and performance
Review: Ok, so I've read pobably 30-40mreviews about this drive. I bought thism drive before I read anything, but the price and timing were right when I bought this. I run a PIII 750, 256RAM, several HDs. Mind you I'mrunningna full SCSI system, no IDE equip what-so-ever. I've tested the drive on 2 scsi controllers, (1)PCI Buslogic Flashpoint adapter (2) Symbios Logi 896 (22910 PCI adapter). I've gone through probably 100+ disks, 1 or 2 miswrites due to data error (typically files in use or not available), note NOT BUFFER UNDERRUNS. The drive is noisy but expected, most noise comes from internal fan or mechanical gearing to guarantee drive spinning at 16x for duration of burn. Also using Nero Burn for all disc creation, ranging from Audio CDs, MP3 CDs, Video-CDs, data backup, direct disc copying and basically anything else one can do. To reduce noise try mounting drive away from other components and using drive rails to reduce external vibrations.
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Summary: SCSI Interface Trouble
Review: There is some general interface issue with Yamaha new CRW2100. In Adaptec EasyCD Creator under CD Information I get "Bad media" error. After rebooting first CD is read fine. Reinserting CD causes the error. I tried different media (Verbatim, Memorex, Maxell, HP, Sony, Yamaha), different OS (Win2000, Win98SE). I upgraded Easy Creator to version 4.02e (Yamaha patch) and 4.03 (Adaptec patch). I was so desperate that I downgraded my Tekram PCI DC390 (which works fine with Toshiba DVD-ROM and HP DDS streamer) to Adaptec AHA1542CF. Nothing helps, still the same error and it is impossible to burn CD. I saw very similar problem review about IDE equivalent (CRW2100EZ).Still I did not receive any respond from Yamaha support. If somebody is going to post a god review about CRW2100SZ, please let us know your configuration (OS, motherboard, SCSI adapter)
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Summary: Great performance in CD-R, top notch CD-R/RW
Review: This is my 2nd CD-RW drive and the 1st I had was an external parallel port HP CD-Writer running at 2x/2x/6x. Being able to burn at 16X was a real treat! Just 4:30 minutes to burn was really great. After the awful experiences with buffer underruns I used to expect from my older drive I didn't really think 16X was possible unless you had a SCSI Hard disk as well. But I was so wrong!! It ran beautifully at 16X with my Quantum 20GB EIDE Hard disk. It is generally understood that you need to defragment the hard disk to avoid fragmentaion and increase performance, so I had been running regular defragmentations and my drive was relativeley defragmented. My only problem was when I tried to burn a CD-RW at 10X as the drive indicates the software would only show me 2X and 4X speed options. And at 4X it would take around 20 minutes which is far too long. I later realised all of those old CD-RW disks i used to use on my older 2x burner was only capable of speeds upto 4x. You need to get the '10x certified high speed' CD-RW disks to burn at the highest possible speed. Also I experienced what some users are complaining about as "Bad media" when you insert blank CD-R media. But this was only before I rebooted for the fisrt time after installing the software. I figured out this was attributed to EasyCD 4.x which I was using, when I switched over to Nero burning rom the problem was gone, still if you use adaptec I expect there must be a patch that fixes this problem or just reboot the system as it will work fine once the PC is rebooted. I have now burned hundreds of CDs and even with my hard disk not being defragmented, and have had very few buffer under run errors. I have even burned across the network at 12x and no problems. (but this may not be a wise thing to do) My Configuration is as follows... Gigabyte 6VX4X motherboard Intel PIII-700Mhz FC-PGA (using slocket adapter) 256MB PC-133 SDRAM (IBM) TNT 2 M64 32MB (AGP) Adaptec 2940UW (PCI) DLink 10/100 NIC (PCI) Acer 50X Max EIDE CDROM Quantum 20GB EIDE HDD
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Summary: Fast drive, but requires a high-end system to work good.
Review: This was my first CD-RW, and my computer, which is 2-years old, barely kept up with this thing. Unless you have a PII-300Mhz with SCSI hard drive, dont even bother because you will be dissapointed at not being able to utilize the drive' maximum recording speed. Actually, I could not burn MP3 audio at 16X becuase my the conversion from MP3 to CDA was enough to cause buffer underruns, I had no choice but to burn audio at slower speeds. Aside from that, this thing is way ahead of its time and is almost worth the $.
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Summary: Yamaha 2100SZ CD-RW 16x10x40 SCSI Internal Kit
Review: wow...this thing is really really fast...but also kinda expensive but if you have da big bucks go for it =) easy installation and comes with adaptec no problems so far
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