Tom's Hardware Review of Yamaha CRW F1

Tremblay99 writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of the Yamaha CRW F1 CD burner. Not interested, you say? Well, it can burn images on the media side of a CD. While it's not the fastest burner around, it can do CD-RWs at 24x. Not bad at all."

Comments

Oh

[Talisman]

"What will i do with a printed image on the media side?!?"

You must be new here.

The answer is: pr0n

Talisman

Problems

[Zara2]

I am very suprised that this is not mentioned in the article but this technology is almost completely useless. The Disk T@2 can only be put on a area with no data. So maybe if you are copying 100MB of mp3's to a cd you could add a bit of text but if you burn more than 300MB or so there is not enough room to put the image. Personally I can't remember the last time I burned a disk with under 500mb on it so this is really a pretty useless feature, however cool I thought it would be at first before I did some research.

More than meets the eye

[DeadBugs]

True the image writing on the CD is mainly eye candy. But the other features that the CRW-F1 support are the reason I purchased one.

* CAV 44X max CD-R recording
* CAV* Ultra Speed 24X max CD-RW recording
* CAV 44X CD reading
* 44X max digital audio extraction
* IDE interface
* 8MB buffer memory
* Safe Burn technology
* Optimum Write Speed Control technology
* New YDC132-V controller
* Supports overburn
* Supports blank CDs of 80, 90 and 99 minutes
* Supports the DAO RAW mode
* Mount Rainier-compatible
* Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording technology
* DiscT@2 technology
* CD-RW Audio Track Edit
* Ahead Nero Burning Rom 5.5 and InCD software
Oh...And a cool blue LED