[wumeng]

Does anybody have experience with the Yamaha FireWire 16x/10x/40x (CRW2100) drive? I'm contemplating purchasing one.

[euro]

I'm also considering this drive - having read through most of the old posts here, I suspect you will not hear anything bad about it (other than the fact that it costs some 80 bucks more than some of the alternatives).
I'll order mine tomorrow.

[wumeng]

I just bought the drive and it's superb! Nice sturdy case and it burns extremely quickly -- about 620MB of burn in under 5 minutes. The verification afterwards was super-fast as well, due to the 40X speed. I'd wholeheartedly recommend it!

[G4ME]

I wold wait to buy this drive untill the newer sanyo comes out, it will have I think 24x10x40 this new dri ve will "drive" down the prices, no pun intended, of this drive, this gose for all current CD RW drives. I think it will be out latter this summer. If you can wait

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[mbperk]

Will it work within itunes 1.1? I have a PBG4, and I really would like to have a faster burner. Currently have a 8x write on my desktop, and I would like to buy a faster firewire one that i can use with itunes Discburn.


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Brad
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[Cipher13]

Get it, that machine is awesome, and Yamaha is the best brand in the business.
Yes, the CRW2100 mechanism (the one you're talking about) is supported by iTunes - www.apple.com/itunes/ - click the "supported CDRWs" link on the right hand side (can't remember the URL).

Cipher13

[lvlucky]

RE: Yamaha CDR 2100FXZ - Firewire -
My experiences & thoughts: I'm up here looking for info & a solution, saw your post and thought I would respond. I've had this burner for about 3 months, and after working thru some odd extenstion issues it had run fine until this week when it just stopped working - while Toast Titainium will recognize it - I'm getting an "insert burnable cd" message; iTunes no longer finds it and neither does my System Profiler. I think it's a burner issue and the serious lack of support on the part of Yamaha via email makes this not as great as I had hoped. Actually I"m thinking about packing it up and sending it back for a refund and getting something else.

[PeteWK]

Originally posted by lvlucky:
<STRONG>RE: Yamaha CDR 2100FXZ - Firewire -
My experiences & thoughts: I'm up here looking for info & a solution, saw your post and thought I would respond. I've had this burner for about 3 months, and after working thru some odd extenstion issues it had run fine until this week when it just stopped working - while Toast Titainium will recognize it - I'm getting an "insert burnable cd" message; iTunes no longer finds it and neither does my System Profiler. I think it's a burner issue and the serious lack of support on the part of Yamaha via email makes this not as great as I had hoped. Actually I"m thinking about packing it up and sending it back for a refund and getting something else. </STRONG>

Very strange. I have one of the CDR 2100 drives, except it has the extension IX (2100IX). It's also a FireWire drive. I wonder what the difference is. Have been nothing but happy with it, though.

PeteWK

[silverghost]

Originally posted by lvlucky:
<STRONG>RE: Yamaha CDR 2100FXZ - Firewire -
My experiences & thoughts: I'm up here looking for info & a solution, saw your post and thought I would respond. I've had this burner for about 3 months, and after working thru some odd extenstion issues it had run fine until this week when it just stopped working - while Toast Titainium will recognize it - I'm getting an "insert burnable cd" message; iTunes no longer finds it and neither does my System Profiler. I think it's a burner issue and the serious lack of support on the part of Yamaha via email makes this not as great as I had hoped. Actually I"m thinking about packing it up and sending it back for a refund and getting something else. </STRONG>

Just had to chime in, i also have this drive and after 6 months it stopped working, i emailed yamaha but didnt get a response for a week so i called them, they finally gave me a rma #; oh by the way its been 1 month and i've yet to see my burner.

so in short yes yamaha makes pretty good stuff but the customer support sucks big time. just my $.02

i bought a dual gig so im in no rush to get it back.


aloha