The Ricoh MP5308D supports 32X CD-R and 16X US-RW recording speeds.

• CD-R Format

The drive supports 4X, 8X, 16X, 20X, 24X and 32X writing speeds. Below are the recording speeds as detected by Nero Burning Rom.

According to Nero CDSpeed, the drive reached the maximum 32X speed. The test started at 15.99X and finished at 32.07X having an average speed of 27.35X. Click on the image below to see the whole graph.

• CD-R Recording Times

For the burning tests we created an 80min data compilation through Nero Burning Rom, recording the data on a 700MB disc. Ricoh finished the task in 3:39 minutes, for the maximum 32X writing speed.

The writing performance varies according to the inserted media, as our tests showed. Below is a chart demonstrating all recording times with various media.

The best performance came with Mam 80min 52X & CMC Magnetics 80min 48X media with 219secs (3:39mins). The highest recording time comes with TraxData 80min 52X media with 224secs (3:44mins).

- Other features

Overburning writing	No
CD text reading/writing	Yes

• CD-RW Format

The MP5308D supports the 4X, 8X and 16X rewriting speeds, with Ultra Speed Rewritable Media (US-RW).

Below you can see the Nero CD-DVD Speed writing simulation test with blank 24X US-RW media from Mitsubishi Chemicals.

The drive starts the writing task at 15.99X under CLV mode.

We also used Nero Burning Rom in order to burn a data disc with 24X US-RW media from MCC. The data compilation we burned had a size of 651 MB and the duration of the recording process was 5:12 minutes.

- CD-RW Mount Rainier

The Ricoh MP5308D doesn`t support the Mount Rainier feature.