Frglss,
I can't seem to pull up their website at this very moment, my IE just keeps "opening page", I guess they've having bandwidth trouble or something, but I always find
this site has good reviews on the newest CDR/CDRW drives, and they have had a couple reviews/tests done on the Yamaha lightspeed. They've given it a great reviews, but have gotten it to coaster a couple of times. With the 8 meg buffer though, they said it's generally very sufficient and were only able to accomplish coasters through extreme torture tests.
Oh one other interesting point to note, if you have a 12x drive and want to upgrade, most 12x media will burn at 16x on this drive, which should be handy if you're upgrading and still have media sitting around. If you have 8x media, it will more than likely automatically reduce burn rate to 10x or so, which is nice that it does it on the fly, rather than failing. So far I've heard only good things about the Yamaha, but I couldn't pass up the $182 deal on the TDK 12/10/32 drive.
divinemartyr