Yamaha 20x/10x/40x CD-RW With SafeBurn Review
Posted on 26/05/01 19:20 by Robin van Lieshout                             
Yamaha 20x/10x/40x CD-RW With SafeBurn Review
Ian used our newssubmit to tell us about his new review:

As a writer it impressed me. Not as much for it's writing speeds but for it's SafeBurn technology. The Optimum Write Speed Control is great for those of us that want to pop in a CD-R and not worry what it was rated at. Yamaha' drive will detect the media's optimal speed and write at that, guaranteeing your data will be readable when your writing session is over. While we did have a few problems with Optimum Write Speed Control and some media, this should be fixed in the next firmware revision. I'm not too worried about it. Yamaha is continuously tweaking their drives. The other thing that impressed me was the drives coaster protection. Combined with the 8mb buffer, this drive is an excellent choice for mastering audio and data CD's. If that huge buffer does empty for some reason, the gaps created by the coaster protection are extremely small. How small? Over 40x smaller than the first generation of BURN-Proof drives.

Read the full review here.

Source: cdrlabs

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By Guest, Saturday 26 May 2001 21:55
The Plextor has had the Safeburn feature (maybe not called that) since the intriduction of the Plex1610A
By Allmighty, Sunday 27 May 2001 11:53
This Burner Should be better than the new Teac Drive, i don+t think so. But Still very good Burner !
By Guest, Sunday 27 May 2001 17:41
Well of course it'll be better! Zone-CLV sucks, because it stops twice for speed change thus creating two 1-micron gaps ON EVERY CD YOU BURN! (pop, hiss on Audio CDs) - Partial-CAV is the way to go - smooth acceleration with no stops, sudden speed changes or gaps!
By Ian, Sunday 27 May 2001 17:53
Plextor's is called PoweRec. It can only reduce the speeds from 16x to 12x or 8x. Most people don't even know this drive can do that.
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