Yamaha 8x4x24 Internal IDE CDRW Drive

by Yamaha

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004RDNK
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,707 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Yamaha 8x4x24 Internal IDE CDRW Drive is a fast and easy-to-use CD-recording device. This CD-RW drive allows you to store data and graphics files with floppy-disk ease, freeing up limited and expensive hard disk space. With Rapidlinked packet writing, you can drag and drop to add files, archiving and backing up important data for simple access from any CD-ROM drive. These files are versatile, and can be read from any drive worldwide. Flash ROM extends the life of the drive by allowing you to instantly upgrade via software available on the Yamaha Web site.

The CD-RW drive can record up to 650 MB of photos, videos, or music for instant access/playback, and its 8x write speed allows you to record a 74-minute CD in just nine minutes. Recording music from CDs for yourself or your friends, or recording original music to share, is easy and fast. It can record, erase, and record again up to 999 times. The 24x read speed eliminates the need for additional CD-ROM drives. The Yamaha CD-RW drive has up to 4 MB of buffer memory; and, with plug-and-play installation, it can be installed in a PC-compatible or Macintosh computer in just a few minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its fast, May 6, 2000

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"jeffdog" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha 8x4x24 Internal IDE CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

I bought this CDRW about 3 weeks ago and I am very satisfied with what I have seen so far. Previously I owned a 2-2-8 burner by Memorex. This drive is so much faster, especially with 8X CD-R recording.

According to the previous review, he/she said this drive does not support Disc-At-Once recording. Well, this drive definitely does so I dont know what that person is talking about.

Initially when I installed this drive, Win 98 had problems with it, but it is not the drive's fault. I fully recommend this drive, especially since the price is very decent. Also, I dont think 12X is really needed since 8X is quite fast already. It only takes 9 minutes for a full CD! I think that speaks for itself.

P.S. - The adaptec software kinda ( ) since it is too simple. I recommend NERO BURNING ROM.

36 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fast , but lots of problems, May 12, 2000

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This review is from: Yamaha 8x4x24 Internal IDE CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

I was initally impressed by the write speed of this drive. But after some more use, I realized that this drive was extremely susceptible to buffer underuns. I couldn't even open up a program while burning or it would fail. I used to own an HP 8250i that basically behaved like a scsi burner, I could have multiple applications open at once with no problem. However, with the Yamaha, I can't even play an mp3 while burning. Addtionally, the drive indeed does not support RAW sector writing, sometimes known as disc-at-once recording. This is different from the normal definition of DAO which it does support. If you don't mind leaving your computer alone while burning, then this drive will be fine, but if you want use other apps while burning, then you're better off getting something else.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent support of Mac, otherwise great drive, July 27, 2000

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Andy J Miller (Wilmington, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha 8x4x24 Internal IDE CDRW Drive (Personal Computers)

The included software for Mac is very disappointing, especially since far more is promised than included. However, for what I want to do with it (backups and occasional easy CDs), it's a great drive, cheap and fast. If you have a Mac and want to cut CDs, you really need a big hard drive to read off... don't try CD -> CD on this drive, the Mac IDE controller will choke. If you want to do that, spend the extra money and get SCSI.