Ricoh GX7000

Advantages: 4 in one drive
Disadvantages: price, speed

...I bought my ricoh on advice from a friend and have from it good advice. The recorder is one of the new range of so called 4 in one drives, a cd player writer re-writer and dvd player. The ricoh is not the fastest recorder currently on the market but fast enough for my needs with writing at 6 speed and re-writing at 4 speed. The ricoh can overburn cd's a practice i find very useful in getting that extra few megabytes. It comes packaged with nero (version 4 in my case) which is a good authoring package and met my needs. I am very satisfied with this cd-writer/dvd player... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average off topic

Advantages: Very Reliable
Disadvantages: Not Scsi

...Reliable Performer: The Ricoh Mp7125a with just link (Ricoh’s name for burn proof) this is a good reliable performer, a well-built unit supplied with Nero 5 writing software. After 6 months of daily use I have yet to have a buffer underun, for a price of just under £100 this machine is well worth considering. I actually paid about £30 more than this when I bought mine. As with other Ricoh CD-RW drives, maintains a maximum read speed of 32x for CD-R and CD-RW media, as well as for CD-ROM. Because CD-RW media has a lower reflectivity than CD-ROM or CD-R media, amplification circuits are more susceptible to noise. This fact causes difficulties with high-speed CD-RW reading, and currently most CD-ROM drives, even 40x drives, can only read CD-RW media at about 20x at best. However, Ricoh have succeeded in minimizing circuit noise... Read review

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Advantages: High read speed. Fast write for CD recordable and rewritable.
Disadvantages: None found so far

...Artec, Not a name i was familiar with until my ricoh cd writer decided to give up the ghost and wouldnt read or write. Although not very expensive (cost about £30 on ebay) has been very reliable and takes minutes to write a full compact disk. Comparing it to my old drive there are the following differences: Ricoh MP7080A: 8 x Write Speed 4 x CD rewritable Speed 32 x Read Speed 4MB Data buffer IDE interface Artce 52x32x52: 52 x Write Speed 32 x CD rewritable speed 52x Read Speed 2mb Data buffer (with burnproof / justlink - avoids making coasters of CDs) IDE interface The one main advantage of this drive is the buffer under run protection - my old ricoh drive would have to be left to write a cd with nothing else running. The artec can have lots going on whilst writing a CD - can browse the internet and play games at the same time... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful