A little more expensive than lesser named brands .
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I can’t speak highly enough about Yamaha products as a whole, and their range of Re-Writers is no exception.
I bought a one of the 6416s series and it has been excellent. I chose the SCSI version and not the IDE because of problems I had heard about concerning the way IDE works in this area.
Having looked around extensively, I found a great deal at Insight. I bought the Re-writer and an Adaptec PCI SCSI card to connect it to my motherboard. SCSI is much quicker than IDE and when ‘burning’ a CD that is important. You should get all the software you need included.
Everything installed itself in Windows 98 and I was up and running within a ten minutes. It writes data and audio and around 1 megabyte per second without any problems. Yamaha units usually have at least 2 megabytes of buffer memory build in, so very few CD making sessions go wrong.
I have only ruined two CD out of around three hundred, at that was because I wasn’t using the correct settings.
You won’t be disappointed if you buy a Yamaha Re-writer along with a Adaptec SCSI card, but make sure you go for the SCSI version – it may cost a little more, but it will be worth it. The fact that it will cut down on ruined CD’s will pay for itself.
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Memory / capacity
Excellent
Design
Excellent
Ease of use
Very easy
Instruction manual
Very useful
Manufacturer Support
Excellent
Speed
Very fast
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