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The most important thing about a DVD recorder is of course its DVD recording performance. As we already mentioned the Ridata drive supports 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD+RW, 40x CD-R and 24x CD-RW recording speeds. For our first tests we're going to start with the drive's DVD+R performance.

Writing DVD+R:

To test the Ridata's performance when writing DVD media we set up a new DVD-Video compilation of roughly 4400MB in Nero Burning ROM 6 and started the recording process. For the 8x DVD+R recording test I used one of the bundled Ritek DVD+R discs with the following ADIP information:

The screenshot shows us that the complete compilation was written in 8 minutes and 9 seconds. This is a few seconds slower than the Plextor PX-708A drive (8m:01s) but the difference is minimal.

Writing Data CD-R:

For our data writing tests we simply set up a new compilation of 700MB using the Nero Burning Rom software. We used the DAO (Disc At Once) writing method. The disc was finalized and set-up as a non-multisession disc. In the screenshot below you can see the burn process completed successfully:

As you can see from the screenshot, the burn process was completed in 3 minutes and 7 seconds. This is again a little slower than the Plextor PX-708A which needed 2 minutes and 58 seconds to write 700MB of data. But, even though the Ridata drive was slower, a burn process of just over three minutes is not bad at all and more than fast enough for most people.

Writing Audio CD-R:

As a final write test we wrote an audio CD to see if the Ridata drive could write the disc at maximum speed. From the screenshot below you can see that the drive had no problems writing our audio compilation at maximum speed.

As a small extra test we wrote the audio compilation with CD-Text and afterwards tested if the Ridata drive could read back the CD-Text. This was no problem for the drive.