"QUE" 16x10x40 CDRW Drive at Sacramento FRY's is made by YAMAHA $129 + $30 rebate.....

[dawber]

The 16x10x40 cdrw is made by Yamaha .... model CRW2100E-NB ........ 8 meg buffer .. EZ creator 4.... $129 with a $30 rebate....$99 ..... around $200 on pricewatch....

 

[Maximus96]

is there burn-proof? that's whole lotta buffer it if has burnproof

 

[meterin]

This sounds really good to me, 8MB buffer is huge, although I don't have a Fry's and can't verify it has burnproof..

FYI, more discussion on this deal over in this thread

 

[Parn]

Yamaha doesn't use burn-proof. they use some technology of their own.

 

[Parn]

$131 for OEM drive on pricewatch. didn't find it for $200. I couldn't find a retail package on pricewatch at all.

 

[SLEEPER5555]

no it does not have burn proof, i beleive the only yamaha that does is the new 20x

 

[claffeyb]

The last Que drive I recall was sold at Compusa and was actually the great Mitsumi 4804TE drive which was compatible with Nero and CloneCD and Blindread and several others.

My 2 punts worth - I have a SCSI Plextor with Burnproof and I still make a lot more coasters than I'd like. If you are doing lots of things at the same time, a hung up system can easily ruin your burn, though I have had several blue screens of death and my burner kept right on going. Usually it's doing dumb things like using WinAce and WinRar at the same time to UnAce and UnRar my downloads, while I am scnning newsgroupos for the lastest headers with max crunching, while I'm burning, while I'm deletig the files in my Recycle bin while I'm surfing AND I only a couple GB of room left on my hard drive. My 384MB memory can't keep up, it's goes to the stupid swap file and runs out of room and bam - coaster.

Burnproof is nice, especially since the non-burnproof units will probably sell for lots less on clearance specials because everyone wants burnproof now.