HardwareZone.com heeft een review gebouwd van de Yamaha CRW2100E-VK IDE burner. Deze drive schrijft op 16X en herschrijft op 10X. De leessnelheid van CD-ROM's is 40X, maar in de test komt de drive niet verder dan 32X. Ook het rippen van Audio-CD's worden de specs (40X) van Yamaha niet gehaald: 21,5X is het maximum. De CRW2100E beschikt niet over Burn Proof technologie, maar heeft wel een 8MB buffer.
The Yamaha CRW2100E-VK is currently the fastest IDE-based CD-RW drive available today. Its ability to consistently read data at a high point of 32x shows that it may be also one of the fastest readers for a CD-RW drive currently.
Furthermore, burning a standard CD-R disc at roughly 2100KB/sec is very fast. You must ensure that you use HS CD-R media for your burns as the Yamaha CRW2100E drive utilises partial CAV for writes above 12x; this means that if your media has a low speed rating, the drive will adjust speed according to that media. One other setback we noticed throughout our tests is that the drive has a very loud whirring noise when reading at high speeds. We had expected something like that to happen (most high-speed drives are noisy) but the sound is still annoying sometimes.
At S$378, the Yamaha CRW2100E drive is a good buy as the Yamaha's CRW8824IX costs over S$690. So if you're on the lookout for an E-IDE-based CD-RW drive that doesn't burn holes in your pocket, the Yamaha CRW2100E-VK is a must-have fast CD-RW drive.
The Yamaha CRW2100E-VK is currently the fastest IDE-based CD-RW drive available today. Its ability to consistently read data at a high point of 32x shows that it may be also one of the fastest readers for a CD-RW drive currently.
The eVGA e-GeForce2 MX TwinView Plus comes out a winner as it's probably the best price/performance/feature card you'll find anywhere. My computer's been powered by this card for over a month I can't find anything that would need improving.
The picture quality for this product is, in a word, excellent. The colours are crisp and the 0.25mm dot pitch ensures a very sharp image. There is some very minor distortion in the corners, but is only noticeable if you are looking for it. In addition to my other petty complaints about this product, like the Trinitron series of monitors, there are two fine lines running across the screen. These are the retention wires and they are an unfortunate necessity for flat CRT (cathode ray tube) monitors.




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