Sanyo CRD-BP900P CD-RW

Review Pages

1. The buffer underrun eliminator strikes again!
2. Installation
3. Data Tests (Pressed CDs)
4. Data Tests (74min CDs)
5. CloneCD Tests
6. DAE Tests (Audio pressed CDs)
7. CDR Tests
8. Conclusion

Sanyo CRD-BP900P IDE CDR-W - Page 8

Conclusion

Positive (+)

Negative (-)

- Burn Proof (anti-coaster) Technology!
- 12x Writing
- CD-Text
- Support most burn speeds (1x,2x,4x,8x,12x)
- Supports (2x,4x) CD-RW burn speed
- True 32x (max) Data performance
- Solid 12x DAE speed
- All know burning method (TAO,DAO,SAO,Packet Writing) support
- No problems with uncertified 12x Media
- Works fine with IDE interface
- Low CPU usage
- You can play Q3 at the same time you BURN CDs!

- No MMC DAO Raw writing
- No Overburn
- DAE speed could be faster...
- Not so good CloneCD reading performance

Sanyo has moved its BURN-Proof technology to the IDE platform and improved their drive's mechanism since some minor problems found on the Sanyo CRD-BP2 model are not present. Most users find the SCSI solutions more reliable than the IDE ones, because they're worried about high CPU usage and possibly buffer underrun problems. Sanyo solution seems the antidote to their fears and can really make your burning life smoother.

Back to the drive's capabilities, no big surprises here since the drive performed very good to all the tests we did. The drive seems to be improved in the DAE ripping speeds since it can now rips wavs with 12x reading speed whereas Sanyo CRD-BP2 (SCSI model) had some problem (which still don't have been fixed even with latest firmware version v2.21.)

So maybe you have been confused...What I should buy since BURN-Proof technology is very well exploited in both drives? Making a small comparison of Sanyo's 12/4/32 BURN-Proof drives could come up:

Sanyo CRD-BP2 (SCSI)	Sanyo CRD-BP900P (IDE)
Much better CloneCD reading performance!	Slight better DAE performance
	Slight better Data reading performance

So when it comes to choose between the two possibly solutions (IDE or SCSI) keep in mind the above table and also that BURN-Proof technology works the same way in both drives.

Finally ,I would like to comment that Sanyo CRD-BP900P may not have many chances to survive in market since Sanyo next models (CRD-BP3 and CRD-BP1300P) supports HS RW recording speeds (4-10x) and Plextor's HS RW recording (PleXWriter PX-W1210A) solution will start selling possibly end of this month... I think the drive should have at least been released one month ago. Who will buy the 12/4/32 IDE solution since he could get the new 12/10/32 IDE model in few weeks?

In order to prevent a mail war where you could possibly buy a BURN-Proof drive:

1) Sanyo don't sells CDR-W drives under their brand. Sanyo sells OEM which means you will find similar drives under others brands ( Lacie, Plextor, Iomega)
2) You can buy a drive based at Sanyo CRD-BP2 at www.perfectcdrw.com (US and Canada)
3) You can buy a drive based at Sanyo CRD-BP900P from www.iomegadirect.com hopefully soon...(Wordwide shipping?)

Other Manufacturers which sell BURN-Proof enabled drives:

- I-O Data Device (Japanese or English homepage)

Models:
CRD-BP2 internal - CDRW-SB124BG / Photo
Attached writing software B.H.A."B's Recorder GOLD Ver.1.6x"(Japanese)

CRD-BP2 external - CDRW-SX124BG / Photo
Attached writing software B.H.A."B's Recorder GOLD Ver.1.6x"(Japanese)

CRD-BP900P internal - CDRW-AB124B / Photo
Attached writing software B.H.A."B's Recorder GOLD"(Japanese) and DigiOn "DigiOnDisc" (Japanese)

- DigiOn (Japanese homepage)

Models:
CRD-BP900P external (with PCMCIA ATA Card. For notebook set)- CDRW-i124B/CI / Photo
Attached writing software B.H.A."B's Recorder GOLD"(Japanese) and DigiOn "DigiOnDisc" (Japanese)

- Mitsubishi Chemical Media (Japanese homepage)

Models:
CRD-BP2 external - "MKRWT4BP" / Photo
Attached writing software B.H.A."B's Recorder GOLD Ver.1.6"(Japanese)