![]() ![]() ![]() Yamaha knows of the problem and offers downloads on its Web site for CRW2100EZ owners, including a firmware upgrade and a free application to optimize ripping speed. Perhaps the biggest problem with the drive is an issue with the Adaptec software, which prevents the CRW2100EZ from extracting audio at Yamaha's claim of 40X. Also, in the packet-writing test, the Yamaha took almost 10 minutes to write a 400MB directory to CD-RW, trailing more than two minutes behind the Ricoh, though it had no problem reading the file back to the hard drive. Though the CRW2100EZ burned 500MB of data to CD-R faster than the Teac CDW512E and Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A, it was 15 seconds slower than the Ricoh MP7120A. But on other tests, 12X drives gave the CRW2100EZ a run for its money. ![]() In CNET Labs' tests, the Yamaha CRW2100EZ got the best time for burning an audio image to CD-R: less than 4 minutes for a 43-minute CD. The performance of the CRW2100EZ was mixed, and it fell short of our expectations for a 16X drive. Neato's MediaFace II 2.0 goes with the labeling kit and offers design ideas and templates, and PC users also get the full-featured MusicMatch Jukebox 5.1. Adobe has three titles for manipulating and organizing graphics and photos: ActiveShare, PhotoDeluxe Business Edition, and PageMill HTML editor. To this, Yamaha adds two more CDs' worth of applications and a CD-labeling kit. Unfortunately, compatibility and software problems hamper the drive's performance instead of a dream machine, the CRW2100EZ is something of a fixer-upper.Īt $299, the drive isn't the cheapest on the block, but Yamaha packs a ton of extras with the CRW2100EZ, starting with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.02d and DirectCD 3.01d (Toast 4.1.1 for Mac users) CD-mastering software. It comes with lots of extra software, a CD-labeling kit, and extensive documentation. An internal drive for PCs and Macs is an idea whose time has come, and its 16X write speeds, 10X rewrite speeds, and 40X audio extraction would make it the fastest on the market. At first glance, the Yamaha CRW2100EZ seems like a dream machine. ![]()
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