Ricoh MP9120A IDE DVD/CDR-W - Page 7

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.0.3.8 for writing CDs in maximum RW writing speed for all the tested drives:

Both Ricoh drives had lower recording times compared to the Plextor PX-W1210A/S drive. The erase times are similar (around 52secs) and are 10secs longer than what Plextor drives yield.

- Packet Writing Tests

The drive arrived with AheadInCD 1.66. For our tests, we used Prassi abCD v1.5.269, which from our tests fits better with WinME and Win2k. Both packet software will give you similar performance so there would be no problem using InCD. Soon InCD would be upgraded to 2.0, which would fully support Win2k. 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 error:

The results show that both Ricoh drives performed very good at packet writing in both writing/reading modes. Especially the MP9120A gave back the higher reading speed (around 17x) when the competition from Plextor (PX-W1210S) stayed back at 8.5x. The PX-W1210A worked much better and gave the lower writing time and average reading speed (13.31x).