Ricoh MP9200A IDE DVD/CDR-W - Page 7

RW Writing Tests

We used Nero 5.5.2.4 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:

The Ricoh MP9200A gave back the same recording/erase time with the MP7200A. Both drives need 485secs to complete the test, while the Yamaha 2200E seems to perform much better with 476secs. The Sanyo BP1500P needs much more time (492) to finish the task and falls behind as last.

- Packet Writing Tests

We used Ahead InCD v2.13 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 results show that all manufactures have really improved Packet Writing performance in the newest models. The MP9200A gives a slightly lower packet writing speed (7.16x) against MP7200A (7.18x) and Yamaha 2200E leads the race with 7.34x!

During the reading process, MP9200A achieves second place behind MP7200A, again with a low performance gap. The Yamaha 2200E follows on third place and Sanyo BP1500P needs to improve its capabilities to reach the competition packet reading performance.