Ricoh MP7320A IDE CDR-W - Page 8

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.8.0 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives in 10x HS-RW media. All drive support fully the HS-RW writing standard:

Ricoh MP7320A gave back a low result compared to the other drives, due to the 10x supported re-writing speed. The other drives support 12x HS-RW speed, and among them the CyberDrive is the fastest writer with 394 seconds. In the "quick erase" test Ricoh MP7320A was fast and finished after 27 secs.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v3.24.3 for all Packet Writing tests. We used Ricoh HS RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media takes around 10min. 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 MP7320A gives a lower packet writing speed (7.11x) against the other drives, but was faster in the reading part, finishing the test in the third position.