Yamaha CRW-F1


Go to Yamaha website Review: Yamaha CRW-F1E
Reviewer: G@M3FR3@K
Provided by:
Yamaha
Firmware: version 1.0b
Production date: June 2002

If you've followed our website
the last couple of weeks you will undoubtedly have noticed some reports on
Yamaha's latest recorder, the CRW-F1 drive. This drive promises some very
innovative features and is, in our opinion, one of the most anticipated/hyped
recorders of this year. During some months Yamaha has revealed pieces of
their puzzle showing the drive and its abilities to the
public.

Yamaha has always been known
for their innovative features (take for instance their previous model, the
CRW3200E drive which had a special audio write method (Audio Master
Quality Recording) and was one of the first drives to support the 'Mount
Rainier' format). This new CRW-F1 model continues that tradition in every way.
New features include 'DiscT@2', 'Advanced Audio Master Quality Recording' and
'Full CAV Writing'. Besides that the Yamaha CRW-F1 drive supports high write and
read speeds of 44X and, more important, re-write speeds of 24X. Sounds
interesting? Well read on to see what these features mean and what we think of
this new Yamaha drive!

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Test Machine:

For the tests we'll be using
the following configuration:

Hardware:

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  • Motherboard: ASUS K7V
  • Processor: AMD Athlon 700Mhz
  • RAM: 256MB (PC133)
  • GFX: ASUS V8200 (GeForce 3 Ti200)
  • Hard Disks: DiamondMax 40GB & 30GB (7200rpm)
  • IDE Controller: PCI UDMA100 Controller
  • USB Controller: NEC USB 2.0 Controller

System set-up:

    System set-up

The Yamaha CRW-F1 was set-up as MASTER on the (onboard) Secondary IDE Channel and, as you can see, identifies itself as "YAMAHA CRW-F1E". DMA (Direct Memory Access) was enabled
and Autorun was disabled for every device. All drives (including the Yamaha
CRW-F1) support UDMA33. The other drives that are listed are running on the PCI
UDMA Controller.

Used Software:

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The Windows XP Professional
operating system is installed on our test machine. We'll be using the following
software to perform the various tests:

On the
next page we'll take a look at the package of the Yamaha
CRW-F1...


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