Yamaha CRW70 Spyder 12x8x24 External USB 2.0 CD-RW Drive and MP3 Player
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Manufacturer: Yamaha
Price at amazon.com: $209.97This item is not stocked or has been discontinued.
- 12x write speed, 8x rewrite speed, 24x read speed
- A built-in MP3 decoder, plays back MP3 songs (up to 300 titles per disk) just like a regular CD player
- SafeBurn buffer management system eliminates buffer underruns and lets you multitask
- Store data and graphics to free up limited, expensive hard disk space
- Plug and Play installation on any PC or Macintosh with a USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 interface port
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Average Customer Rating:
Comment: not bad...not bad Rating:
So, I bought this for my lap top, and not knowing much about burners I kind of had to guess which to get.
Let's start with the bad then end of with the good:
1. Yamaha never sent me the rebate that was advertised with the burner. So, it makes this burner a little more pricey than others
2. The burning software is a little bit buggy and often does an illegal operation and shuts down. however, it hasn't really affected it too much because it usually does the error when you are shutting it down anyway.
3. I often lose sound on my regular cd drive when playing discs and on the hard drive when playing music. but that could be my own computer's fault.
4. I bought the drive thinking i could use it with headphones since it's portable. well, you need an outlet to get power, so it's not something you can use to run off of batteries. I also thought it could store MP3's, which it doesn't, but that's pretty much my own ignorance when it comes to these things.
Ok, so the good things:
1. it was really easy to install
2. it records music very quickly
3. the sound quality is good
4. you can plug it into a receiver and play CD's that way without having to buy a separate cd player for your stereo.
well, anyway, I hope this helps!
Comment: Make sure you have usb 2.0 for 24x speed, or it will be 6x ! Rating:
A wonderful cool looking device that immediately worked under Linux. Only problem: Most computers (such as my notebook purchased last year) do not have a usb 2.0 port. The drive also works with the old usb 1.1, but will only run at a speed of 6x instead of 24x.
So you will have to buy a usb 2.0 port card in addition to this drive. Apart from that it would be 5 out of 5 stars:
The buffer-underrun-protection works wonderfully, and that it can play mp3 cds without the computer being connected is just another plus.
Linux 2.4.19 will have usb 2.0 drivers included, they are already in the 2.4.19pre3 code.
Michael
PS: Windows XP worked also, but Linux is just better ;-)
Comment: I'd buy it immediately IF Rating:
they trim/slim considerably that brick the R&D Yamaha people call a power supply!
What were they thinking?
Posted at November 11, 2003 07:59 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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