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The Ridata DVD recorder supports 4x DVD+RW and 24x CD-RW re-writing speeds. On this page of our review we'll see how well the Ridata drive can re-write data and how it performs with packet writing.

Re-Writing Data:

For our first test we're going to record a DVD-Video compilation to 4x DVD+RW media. In the screenshot below you can see the burn process completed successfully in 14 minutes and 34 seconds:

There isn't much to tell about the Ridata's performance with DVD+RW media since the achieved result was as one would expect when burning at 4x. The Ridata RDA-08041 was a little faster than the Plextor PX-708A (14m:40s) but not by much.

The Ridata's CD-RW performance was also as one would expect. The drive wrote the 650MB compilation in 3 minutes and 34 seconds, again a little faster than the Plextor PX-708A (3m:40s).

Packet Writing:

For our packet writing tests we used Ahead's InCD 4 software and tested both the Ridata's CD-RW and DVD+RW performance. For our first DVD+RW test we set-up a test folder with random data measuring roughly 4.35GB in size. After formatting was complete we measured the time it took for the drive to write the test data. In the table below we've summed up our results:

The Ridata packet writing performance was almost the same as the Plextor PX-708A. The Ridata needed just a little more time to write our test data but both drives had the same average write speed of 3.8x. Not a bad result at all.

For our next CD-RW tests we set-up a test folder with random data measuring 400MB in size. We then inserted an empty disc and measured the time it took for the drive to format the disc after which the test data was dragged and dropped to the disc via the Windows Explorer. In the table below you can see the results again:

And with the CD-RW packet writing tests we can also see that the Ridata and Plextor drive perform very similar. Both drives needed the same time to write our test folder with data and thus both drive had the same average writing speed. The Ridata drive was a little faster when formatting the CD-RW disc though.