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)
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:
- Ahead Nero Burning Rom
v6.3.0.3
- Ahead Nero CD/DVD
Speed v2.11
- Ahead InCD v4.1.5.10
- Ahead Nero InfoTool
v2.07
- SlySoft CloneCD
v4.3.2.2
- Kris Schoofs
DVD Identifier v3.2 build 2
- Plextor PlexTools
Professional v2.11
look at the drive's package, the drive itself and its specifications and
features.
