Ricoh MP7120A IDE CDR-W - Page 7

CDR-W Tests

The Ricoh MP7120A is the first Ricoh model that supports 10xRW-writing speed. Using HS RW media, you can burn a full 650 MB in 8:00mins. The drive doesn't support 8x writing as other Sanyo based solutions do. This does not make any difference, as we prefer the fastest speed of course ;) The drive can write normal to 4x RW media at 4x as all HS RW enabled drives do.

- RW tests:
We used Nero 5.0.2.2 for writing CDs in 10x RW writing speed. Below are the results from various RW writing speeds:

Let check the competition:

The Ricoh drive again had the lowest time for completing the data task. The Sanyo came second and Plextor third. In addition, the Ricoh had the quickest time when erasing the HS RW media. This was measured with PadusDJ v3.00.712. Sanyo came second with 39secs and Plextor third with 44secs. The Ricoh and Plextor have similar CPU Usage and Sanyo has the lowest CPU usage (SCSI). We can safely say that the Ricoh is the RW writing leader when compared to the other two drives.

- Packet Writing Tests:
We tried to use Ricoh MP7120A with PacketCD v3.00.209. However, PacketCD refused to write with the Ricoh drive. Since no new drive pack was available from Cequadrat we decided to install Prassi abCD v1.3.161. However Prassi released a newer version up to v1.5.169. After updating the old version and reboot Prassi' s logo welcomed us:

We used Ricoh HS RW media and we formatted it. The formatting of the media took around 8min (add 2 extra minutes if you erase the media also):

After formatting, we tested all three drives for their packet writing performance. The formatted disc had 530mbs of free space. We copied a 403 MB file (403.1476kbs) 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 clearly that the Ricoh MP7120A had the best reading/writing speed results when compared to the other two drives. It's average packet writing speed was 7.07x, although the Plextor followed closely with 7.0x. The Sanyo didn't seem to perform that well and produced a result of 5.39x average writing speed.Ok you wrote you data..One day you will try recovering your data. The Ricoh gave outstanding read performance and reached 17.09x average read speed. The Plextor had nearly the half speed (8.42x) and the Sanyo 2.36x results. Erasing files from the formatted media took only a couple of seconds to complete.

Verdict of CDR-W Results:
Ricoh has managed to make MP7120A a true champion in the RW and packet-writing arena. The drive performed well in all of our (RW) tests and outperformed both the Plextor and Sanyo drives. Imagine waiting 17mins to read your data with the Sanyo CRD-BP3 when the Ricoh MP7120A took only 2:17mins to read!!!!!!!