Yamaha CRW3200EZ 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive

by Yamaha

Product Details

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• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005UE92
• Item model number: CRW3200EZ
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 5, 2002

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Yamaha's new LightSpeed 3200EZ CD-RW drive lives up to its name. Featuring a 24x write speed, it burns 74 minutes of music or 650 MB of data to CD-R media in just 3 minutes. Make custom CDs for road trips or burn a business presentation right before you go without having to worry about being late.

With a 40x read speed, and an average 130-millisecond access time, this drive is powerful enough to replace your existing CD-ROM. It also writes to CD-RW at 10x (1.5 MBps), and you can reuse a single CD up to 999 times.

The LightSpeed has an 8 MB buffer and SafeBurn Buffer Management System to eliminate buffer underrun errors, allowing you to burn CDs while running multiple applications and drastically reducing the chance of an unusable "coaster" CD being created.

Additional features include Audio Master technology, which improves audio and music recording quality by reducing jitter levels by up to 30 percent. True drag-and-drop CD rewriting is also supported for convenient file backup and storage.

The CRW3200EZ is a plug-and-play drive for quick installation and setup. Ahead Nero 5.5 CD recording software is included for fast and powerful creation of your own data, video, and music CDs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome CD Burner, You Can't Go Wrong, March 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Yamaha CRW3200EZ 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

This was my second CD Burner. My first one was an HP 8550i with a 4x4x24 speed. The HP was very flakey. The Yamaha CRW3200EZ installed flawlessly. Now instead of taking 45 minutes to burn 650MB of data onto the disc, it only takes about 3 to 4 minutes to burn the same data. That was only burning at 16x. The one CD-R that I got with the drive was a 24x rated CD and I filled that thing in less than 3 minutes. The ripping speed of this drive is awesome also. The prices on this unit have really come down so now is probably a good time to buy. I don't see a whole lot more time spent improving this technology when DVD-R is emerging. So if your waiting for the drives to get faster than they are now, you may end up waiting a long time. So I would advise that if you are in the market for a new burner, you can't go wrong with this one.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for, January 24, 2002

By 

Chad Hetlet "Chad" (West Des Moines, IA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Yamaha CRW3200EZ 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

I bought this drive because the store was out of the Plextor and Sony I wanted. The Yamaha was a bit more, but they have a good reputation and the 8mb buffer sounded impressive. Installation was a breeze, XP Home recognized it immediately. Comes with great software (Nero 5.5) and a blank CD. I have only used it a couple of times and had no problems. It isn't nearly as loud as I thought it would be, but it is louder than my older slower cd-rw. This drive certainly is fast. I was burning stuff just to watch it go. It's amazing how fast it is. I have a PIII 1 ghz with 512 mbRam and with the large buffer I can easily perform other functions on my pc while its burning.
On a side note, its also very nice looking. I would definately recommend buying this drive if you want it all.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST, January 12, 2002

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Oleg (Louisville, KY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yamaha CRW3200EZ 24x10x40 CD-RW Drive (Personal Computers)

The best and fastest CD-RW drive out there. True 24X, 8 MB of buffer, SafeBurn protection, P-CAV technology with no gaps between the zones - great for high quality audio (Z-CLV ...), great seek time, cool looking blue LED, CD-MRW support, Nero Burning Rom 5.5, Audio Master Quality Recording.