RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.0.4.4 for writing CDs at the maximum RW speed for all the tested drives. All other drives wrote at 10x RW writing speed:

The Ricoh MP7125A gave back an average result. The MP7120 and the MP9120 seem to be faster since they finished the task earlier (about 4-5secs). The CPU usage is very good and lower than the other drives, while the erase time was exactly the same with the other Ricoh CDR-W drives.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v1.82 for all Packet Writing tests. The drive is packaged with v1.69 and we suggest upgrading to the latest one. We used Plextor HS-RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 7min. After formatting, we tested all four drives for their packet writing performance.

The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.147 kbs) from a Hard Disk (on the same PC as the writers) to the formatted RW media-using explorer (we dragged and dropped) we completed the test twice to eliminate possible time measurement faults and user errors:

The results show that the Ricoh MP7125A has a very good packet reading/writing performance. The drive managed to give around 7.07x writing speed -however slower from both MP9120 and PX-W1210A- and around 15.79x reading speed which is also lower than the MP9120A.