Ricoh offers a combination CD-R/RW and DVD Player (ROM) in one drive. This drive features Ricoh new buffer underrun error prevention technology "JustLink". The newly developed... more
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A review by RichardDimery on Ricoh MediaMaster MP9120A-DP February 20th, 2001
Author's product rating:
Reliability
Ease of Installation
Value For Money
Advantages:
Fast, reliable, multifeatured
Disadvantages:
With only one CDR and one CDRW, I've to go to PC World !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
It was about time I got a new CD ROM drive, and I wanted to get both a CD Rewritable drive and a DVD-ROM drive. God bless Ricoh...! No sooner had I realised that the company which brought us the CDRW disc had also produced a combination CDRW and DVD drive, than they went and improved it! Now the new drive, only a bit more expensive, reads CDs at 32x, records at 12x and rewrites at 10x - AND reads DVDs at 8x!!! All in all, that means this drive is among the fastest and relatively future-proof (as much as anything is nowadays, anyway)!
The box includes one CDR and one CDRW disc to practice on, a fine DVD software player and an excellent CD burning software program called Nero, as well as a drag-and-drop CDRW drive feature.
I was momentarily disappointed to find no manual in the package, but to tell the truth, you really don't need one! The software is very user-friendly, with plenty of help, and the drive itself is simple but fast.
DVD playback is unproblematic and frankly I wasn't expecting it to be so great on a PII-350, but I'm sold on DVDs all over again! I burned my first CD today - I understood recording took a long time, but I downloaded a CD in 6 minutes and burned a new one in a quarter of an hour! I'm off to get some more CDRs so I can experimetn further - I'm SO GLAD I bought this drive!
Compliant Standards: Kodak PhotoCD, CD-DA, CD-XA, CDi, Video CD
Hard drive
Type: None
Manufacturer's product description
Ricoh offers a combination CD-R/RW and DVD Player (ROM) in one drive. This drive features Ricoh new buffer underrun error prevention technology "JustLink". The newly developed wobble detection system for writing has been adopted, given even greater writing reliability. The drive's advanced dust proofing is realized by improved door shaped and shielding.
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces:
1 x audio - line-out - 4 PIN MPC
1 x headphones - output - mini-phone stereo 3.5 mm
Connections: 1 x storage - ATA-33 - 40 PIN IDC
Compatible Bays: 1 x front accessible - 5.25" x 1/2H
