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Posted by Dennis
Posted on 17/03/04 12:15
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  Review: Ridata RDA-08041 (IDE, DVD+RW)
Reviewer: Dennis
Provided by: Moka Europe B.V.
Firmware: version BX30
Manufactured: December 2003

Three years ago the Taiwanese Ritek company, one of the world's largest manufacturers of recordable media, created the Ridata brand. This new brand was created to focus on Optical Storage Devices so that Ritek could provide the market with both optical storage products and the accompanying media. Ridata was successfully introduced in the Asian and American market and now Ridata is focussing on Europe.

The direct importer of Ritek products for Europe is Moka Europe B.V. We would like to thank this company for providing us with Ritek's latest product, the RDA-08041 8x DVD+R(W) recorder. As many of our readers will know drives that support 8x DVDR recording have been available for a while now. A common problem has always been however that 8x recordable media is very hard to come by. An advantage of buying a DVD recorder from a company that also manufactures media is that this problem is easily solved: the Ridata drive is delivered with 8x certified Ritek DVD+R media!

Test Machine:

For the tests we'll be using the following configuration:

Hardware:
  • Motherboard: GigaByte GA-7VAXP
  • Processor: AMD AthlonXP 2100+
  • RAM: 512MB (PC2700)
  • GFX: ASUS V8200 (GeForce 3 Ti200)
System set-up:

The Ridata DVD recorder was hooked up as Master to the (onboard) secondary IDE-controller and identifies itself as "JUMBO DVDRW DDW-081". From this model number and the installed firmware version (BX30) we can see that the Ridata RDA-08041 is actually a rebadged NU DDW-081 DVD recorder. So, this review can also be seen as a review of the Nu Tech drive. Note that for each drive in our system DMA (Direct Memory Access) and autorun were enabled.

Used Software:

The Dutch Windows XP Professional SP1 operating system is installed on our test machine. We'll be using the following software to perform the various tests:

On the next page of our review we'll take a look at the drive's package, the drive itself and its specifications and features.
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Posted by john (guest) on Saturday 20 September 2008 23:58
dude, their CD media quality dropped like SH** in the past few years. I have over 50% media loss when duplicating. Sucks. Imagine a project that needs 2,000 discs... 1,000 gone. I should sue their asses. :(
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