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Summary: A Marvelous product
Review: I recently purchased this product among the horrid reviews, expecting the same amount of problems that others have faced, and the same ones I Had when I installed a similar drive but returned it. I was simply amazed at the product. After a proper Master/Slave ATAPI configuration (DONT Use Cable Select or CSEL) windows started up properly with another drive in the works. I imediately installed the burner software, and it whipped out a 10X Rewritable CD in under 6 minutes! I was FASCINATED! Then I installed the DVD softs and, for having no decoder card, a Pentium II 350Mhz and an old, antiquitidated Riva TNT videocard, DVD's play back smoothly. They're not as crisp as I like, but that's my videocard and system I know. Anyways, put short, if you take a proper configuration path (feel free to mail me asking for help) this product is the absolute best for someone who doesnt have a lot of drive bays or doesnt want too many perhiperals in thier system. It works like a charm, and yes I was doubting of all the performance of this drive.. The only beef I have with it is that it's a tad noisy with reading any CD, but it doesnt matter cause it's not like a high pitched whine. Not only does it perform great as a burner and a DVD drive, its a FAST CD reader. Old DVD drives took up to 10-20 seconds to recgonize a CD, not a DVD and this drive picks em up real fast. Random Access times are GREAT, instaling the CD software took less than a minute for the WHOLE PACKAGE! It is great! If anyone cannot get this drive to work properly... Check your configurations on the drives. Master/Slave, Make sure you have Pin 1 Lined up with the cable and the other rules of hardware installations.
Rating: 
Summary: okay while it lasted (but it didn't last very long!!)
Review: I used this Ricoh MP9120A DVD/CDRW drive in a secondary Dell PC exclusively for playing CDs (20 per month on average) and burning CD-Rs (5 per month on average). I'm sad to report that this drive is now a costly paperweight after just 18 months of moderate use (6 months after the warranty expired; it figures). I expected to play more than approximately 400 CDs on the unit before it died.Now every CD I put in spins up to speed and within a few seconds the drive is making an *AWFUL* racket. I have to shut down the PC and put a paperclip end into the emergency eject hole to retrieve the CD. Inspection of the CD usually reveals plastic dust on the rim of the hole of the CD, evidence that the Ricoh drive has started to shred it through violent vibrations and shaking inside the drive. (My best guess is that the spindle of the drive is off-balance. Even turning the four restraining tabs over the CD does not help, as the tabs do not extend out far enough to cover the edges of a standard CD. That's a frustrating Ricoh design flaw!) Every time the awful noise happens and the shredding of the CD in the Ricoh drive begins, I take the CD out and blow the plastic dust off of it, then put it in the *5 year old* Sony CDRW drive on my primary Dell PC (that has flawlessly played at least 1,000 CDs and burned hundreds of CD-Rs over 5 years). It always plays just fine in that Sony drive. I'm now shopping for a non-Ricoh drive to replace this one. I will never buy a Ricoh drive again based on this bad experience, and I can't recommend this Ricoh drive to anyone who expects it to outlast the one-year warranty period.
Rating:
Summary: okay while it lasted (but it didn't last very long!!)
Review: I used this Ricoh MP9120A DVD/CDRW drive in a secondary Dell PC exclusively for playing CDs (20 per month on average) and burning CD-Rs (5 per month on average). I'm sad to report that this drive is now a costly paperweight after just 18 months of moderate use (6 months after the warranty expired; it figures). I expected to play more than approximately 400 CDs on the unit before it died. Now every CD I put in spins up to speed and within a few seconds the drive is making an *AWFUL* racket. I have to shut down the PC and put a paperclip end into the emergency eject hole to retrieve the CD. Inspection of the CD usually reveals plastic dust on the rim of the hole of the CD, evidence that the Ricoh drive has started to shred it through violent vibrations and shaking inside the drive. (My best guess is that the spindle of the drive is off-balance. Even turning the four restraining tabs over the CD does not help, as the tabs do not extend out far enough to cover the edges of a standard CD. That's a frustrating Ricoh design flaw!) Every time the awful noise happens and the shredding of the CD in the Ricoh drive begins, I take the CD out and blow the plastic dust off of it, then put it in the *5 year old* Sony CDRW drive on my primary Dell PC (that has flawlessly played at least 1,000 CDs and burned hundreds of CD-Rs over 5 years). It always plays just fine in that Sony drive. I'm now shopping for a non-Ricoh drive to replace this one. I will never buy a Ricoh drive again based on this bad experience, and I can't recommend this Ricoh drive to anyone who expects it to outlast the one-year warranty period.
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Summary: Fast and Easy, Plus Quality
Review: The great feature's of this product is the speed. The read\write Quality is Excellent and Fast. Also, 8x DVD quality for movies are great. The software package (Prassi) is state of the Art. I definitly recommend this product to everyone who loves to BURN...
Rating:
Summary: Great value!
Review: This drive is great! Not only do you get a fast 12x CD write speed and 10x CD rewrite speed, this also has Ricoh's JustLink technology. What it does is totally eliminates buffer underruns, so no more coasters! And you get the DVD drive too, except in one drive!
Rating: 
Summary: Terrible product
Review: This drive was not even accessible by my computer. I have a Dell 800 MHz which should have been compatible. Great idea but the product is a piece of crap. Tech support guys at Ricoh were total jerks.
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