Hardware-One posted today the review of Yamaha CRW-8824FXZ (firewire model):

"...Even after simultaneously spawning over 10 windows, surfing the net, typing a document in MS Word and performing file transfers / copies on other partitions, the writing process showed no discernible stutter nor break in writing!! The copying process effected by Yamaha's CRW8824FXZ seemed truly self-sufficient and non-chalant to the system operations, and continued unperturbed..."