Customer Reviews

Yamaha 8x4x24 External SCSI CDRW Drive

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This product is the best investment for my computer to date. Installation is a snap, literally; just plug the SCSI card into an empty PCI port, connect the cable to the Yamaha CDRW & boot up your system. It's that simple. The drive is extremely FAST and it performs flawlessly. It also comes with a generous 4mb buffer that you can update at the Yamaha web site. The software is by far the best on the market, allowing you to create your own music CD's or back up your entire hard drive, just drag and drop or select the folder and click add. Extremely easy to operate, not one problem yet. Highly Recommend!

I purchased another manufacturer's drive that used a USB connection. I was limited by the speed in which I could write(BURN) CDs. After doing extensive research I found that Yamaha is actually the manufacturer of a lot of brands drives. I also found that a SCSI Transfer rate is far superior to the USB connection. The incredible amount of software included with this drive makes it a simple drive to operate. Highly Recommend!

THIS BURNER MADE BY YAMAHA IS THE MOST AMAZING BURNER I HAVE EVER USED. THE SPEEDS ARE MAGNIFICENT AND IT IS A GREAT LOOKING PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. I HAVE OWNED SEVERAL DIFFERANT BURNERS AND THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST ONE YET. THE REBATE IS ALSO GREAT WHICH HELPS MAKE THIS BURNER AFFORDABLE.

The Yamaha and RICOH CDR/CDRW drives are among the best there are in consumer CD-media recorders. Besides the superiority of the legendary SCSI transfer quality, you get a drive that performs flawlessly, a generous buffer of 4MB and some of the best recording software available.

Yamaha has one of the best reputations for making SCSI CDRW's. I've had my 8424 CDRW for about 6 months now and it has always performed reliably. At 8x, 650MB CD's can be burned within 9 minutes, which is fast enough for all my needs. You can find faster CDRW's out there (Yamaha makes a 16x one), but consider the price difference and the few minutes you would save per CD.

I needed an external unit because I am using this device with a Apple laptop. It is very easy to use. The unit came with Adaptec Toast 4 (light version) software, which can burn both data and music and is user-friendly. I wish the Toast software were the deluxe version, which has more capabilities (like recording in a PC-compatible format). Maybe Adaptec did not want that (most CDRW brands only include the light version).

It also included Neato CD-labeling kit, which is very useful for printing out and applying labels/designs on the CD's. This is a valuable addition.

The external case is well-built, pleasant-looking, and reasonably quiet. It does have two fans to cool the CD mechanism inside, but this produces just as much sound as most fans inside the computers the unit would attach to. One important thing to note is that this CDRW does not come with a SCSI cable or adapter, you'll have to purchase one separately. Make sure you find the right one for your computer, since there are many shapes of SCSI ports.

have had this for over 3 years now.
use it in office for burning data as well as audio cds.
has worked well from day one, no problems in installing
or using it.
a big two thumbs up. great quality product, burns cds at great
speeds, and "coaster" rate of around 1 cd in 100 !