Ricoh MP7125A IDE CDR-W - Page 2

Data Tests

Test Method:
- SCSI Mechanic v3.0: This was used to compare the Ricoh's 7125A I/O performance against other various CDR-W drives (see charts). We used a pressed CD containing PlexTools v1.06 for all tests.
- CD Speed 99 v0.80 was also used to check the drive performance with pressed CDs. For that test we used PlexTools v1.06 original CD.

- SCSI Mechanic v3.0 results

As you can see from the graph above, the Ricoh 7125A performed very well in most of our tests. Its performance (700) is very good in the Average Random I/O but it cannot reach the MP9120A top performance. The drive seems to perform very good also in the Average Sequential I/O tests since it produced a very good result (3621), which even if it's not the highest, it is still very good. Last but not least, all Ricoh drives have much lower Same Sector I/O test results compared to the PleXWriter PX-W1210a. In general, we can say that the drive's performance is not the best you can find around but also it's not the worst also..

- CD Speed 99 v0.80 results: (click here to see the chart)

Using CD Speed 0.80, we can see that the Ricoh MP7125A has the second average reading performance after the PX-W1210A. The performance gap is low (0.3x) but it's there...

The Ricoh MP7125A has the same seek times which the MP9120A also had. Actually from the test results the MP7125A is slightly slower (3-7ms) than the MP9120A which however is much faster than what tShe competition (PX-W1210A) has.