#Yamaha vs. Kodak 522
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I have to make a choice between a Yam 4x or a Kodak522 2x. All things being
equal ( disregarding the price difference ) would you go for the Yam or the
Kodak. I am particularly interested in support / reliability issues.
thanks, Gav
In big issue is system configuration. With the Yamaha you will need a system
that can feed the data at 4X in to a 640K buffer. With the Kodak you start
with a 2MB buffer can expand to 32MB. So price is not just recorder price.
The Kodak 225 is an update of a 3.5 year ago design, the kink have been worked
out. The Yamaha has been shipping about a year now. We were seeing a higher
failure rate with the Yamaha, but the newer one are doing much better.
The biggest factor is the usage you want from it. The Yamaha writes discs
faster. If that's what you need the Yamaha is the answer.
In big issue is system configuration. With the Yamaha you will need a system
that can feed the data at 4X in to a 640K buffer. With the Kodak you start
with a 2MB buffer can expand to 32MB. So price is not just recorder price.>>>
Actually the CDR 100 has a 512k buffer.
I agree that the price includes everything you might get stuck buying with the
recorder. ie you have just bought a nice new p90 system with a 1gig IDE drive
and with the PCD 225, CDD 522 or Plasmon RF 4102 you don't need to add a new HD
but with the CDR 100 you will be stuck buying a new HD that you may or may not
need.
Georges
CD Archive, Inc.
http://www.cdarchive.com
>> but with the CDR 100 you will be stuck buying a new HD that you may or may
not need.
Will adding a SCSI 1 Gig hard drive to the same controller bus as a Yamaha
CD100 work? In other words, will one be able to write a 650 meg image from the
1 gig to the CD100 if they are on the same Adaptec controller?
Kevin C
Kevin,
We have used only one card on most of our machines for some time now but they
are all AV drives connected to our CDR 100's. Also the slowest machine
connected to a CDR 100 is a P75 and we still don't have an easy time with
burning on the fly.
I have yet to find a good program that takes advantage of system memory. You
would think on a system just burning a disc (with 32MB of memory) would be able
to augment to the lame 512k buffer in the 100.
Cheers,
georges
thanks for your info
Gav
The only reason to buy a Yamaha 4X recorder over the Kodak or Philips (or
Pinnacle Micro, etc.) 2X is if writing a disc in 15 minutes is worthwhile. The
Kodak (an OEM Philips) writes just fine in 30 minutes (plus or minus three
minutes) a complpetely full disc.
(See our new brochure with CD recording information in Marketplace, Library
Section 10.)
-Roger Hutchison