The Richo MP7200A may not be the fastest burner in town at 20 speed, but after happy previous experinces of their products and good online reviews that's the one I chose. Its amazing how fast these modern drives can write a disk, about 5-6 minutes is typical. The Ricoh features "Just Speed" which looks at the media and "suggests" a maximum burn speed. This sounds like a good idea, but I have a spindle of 16 speed rated disks and the drive suggests 12 speed. I thought what the heck, turned the feature off and have written a dozen disks without a problem (it seems a shame not to use full speed!). Just-link is also included, this stops the drive from suffering from inadequate data supply causing "buffer underrun". If you have the feature enabled and would have suffered from an underrun, the supplied Nero software tells you how many times it saved you. I haven't had a single failed write yet.
I've not used the packet writing software also supplied (InCd) much yet, but it seems to do what it says on the box.
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