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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I've had this burner since December, and I'm not impressed. Ii'm running windows me, and the software is very touchy. I get a lot of system freezes and some long waits. The drag and drop features for audio CD's is great, so long as my system doesn't lock up. It's not terrible, but I could've saved a lot of money by buying a slower one that doesn't lock up my computer.
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Summary: Easy To Install
Review: I had no trouble installing CDRW Kit. I had it in the computer in a matter of minutes and once connected, my OS recognized it immediately.It is a great purchase.
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Summary: read this BEFORE you buy a 16X writer
Review: Remeber, you can burn only as fast as you can extract data from the original CD. 99% of the time you will be burning at less than 8X for most uses!!!
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Summary: Very disappointed
Review: I order both SCSI and EIDE models, tried connected them to different computer with same result: device sees first CD and after reload says: bad media.
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Summary: Check the DMA
Review: For those who can't get there Yamaha to work, be sure that the DMA is checked on the hard drive and the CDRW. I did and it works great.
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Summary: nothing wrong here, the drive is great!
Review: My drive has worked wonderful since the day I installed it. I am running it in a Win ME environment with an AMD t-bird 850 and 512 mb ram and have had absolutly no problems whatsoever. I have been quite impressed with the consistency of the speed of my burns, it burns at 16x all the time (on 16x media of course!). It is quieter than any of the other drives that I have had in the past, I have never experienced any screeching or weird noises, and it is so much quieter than the 50x cd-rom that is in the system with it. Overall, I would definatly recommend this drive to the burning enthousiast!
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Summary: Very good and reliable.
Review: Since I bought it works fine. I'm satisfied. Is not noisey and fast. I could burn my CD's for 4 minutes.
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Summary: Pretty good stuff for me. Guess than I am lucky.
Review: I am impressed with the large number of unhappy people reviewing this Yamaha CDR. I bought it about one month ago and I love it. I did improve the speed of the transfer after enablin DMA in the burner and in the hard drive. It is fast and reliable. I agree that it is also a bit noisy but I can live with that.
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Summary: Save your money, get a Plextor
Review: I read the reviews on this and took my chance, wish I would have gotten a Plextor instead. It's fast to burn mp3 music to a cd but when you want to copy a disk, it goes down all the way to 4x recording. Just downloaded the drivers to see if that improves. Like I said, get the Plextor instead
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Summary: Sweet Burner
Review: It is fast and reliable burner. I had some problems after the installation; but I checked the manual, enable the DMA of the burner's properties. It works like a charm every tries at 16X. Updated the firmware was a breeze. Again, READ THE INSTRUCTIONS. Used P3 500MHZ, 128M, Quantum 30G 7,200RMP.
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