Exploding CDs and DVDs
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Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
I like this quote :
"I haven't experienced an exploding CD but did have my copy of Neverwinter Nights somehow levitate out of the CD holder and bury itself in the nether parts of my machine with a nasty metallic thunk," says Queensland PC user Neil Booth.Max. -
Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
I have personally seen this happen. A friend bought a new HP PC and HP printer. When asked for the printer drivers he put the disk in a it shattered (50% dust 50% minute fragments) At least after a call to warrenty support they allowed me to take the drive appart and see if I could clean it out prior to sending a new drive. (We were successfull but make sure you use a shop vac. Those fragments were as bad as glass.) "I will find a new sig someday."
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Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
Time to increase the tensile strength of CD/DVD media :) Tensile strength of materials is a primary concern when designing rotating machine parts. [What's the maximum angular velocity of this sprocket-thingy before it literally flies apart?] Time for the Kevlar CPU case. -Sean ---- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein. I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" -- Emo Philips. Love is two minutes, 52 seconds of squishing noises. -- Johnny Rotten.
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Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
I read the original article mentioned in the linked page a while. All I could/can think is :omg: I have heard of certain manufacturers (Plextor?) actually stating that their drives have a strengthened drive door.
Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
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Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
This is all part of a conspiracy by the RIAA and MPAA to get us to buy more CDs and DVDs.:suss: Jason Gerard "This almost never matters, except quite often."
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*Sigh* First CD drives that caught fire, now this - my job is getting too dangerous, i think i'll go seek employment as a lineman or Alaskan fisherman...
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I heard recently that the most dangerous job in the U.S. is that of an elephant handler. Rather timely; just a few weeks ago an elephant at the local zoo decided it was no longer fond of one of the zookeepers, and squashed him like a grape. Tim Lesher tim@lesher.ws www.lesher.ws WinDev: the Windows Developers' Mailing List
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I read the original article mentioned in the linked page a while. All I could/can think is :omg: I have heard of certain manufacturers (Plextor?) actually stating that their drives have a strengthened drive door.
Bruce Duncan, CP#9088, CPUA 0xA1EE, Sonork 100.10030
I can levitate birds...Bruce Duncan wrote: I have heard of certain manufacturers (Plextor?) actually stating that their drives have a strengthened drive door. The strengthened drive door is to hold large and heavy coffee cups! Max.
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Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
Remember that site before where they done experiments like this? They spun discs up on a machine, stood behind a glass screen and watched the disc shatter. I thought it was only possible under these conditions - I never realised it was actually possible on a 54x drive. :omg:
Simon Walton
Sonork: 10024P
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Life in the fast lane can be a disc-shattering experience[^] cheers, Chris Maunder
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Time to increase the tensile strength of CD/DVD media :) Tensile strength of materials is a primary concern when designing rotating machine parts. [What's the maximum angular velocity of this sprocket-thingy before it literally flies apart?] Time for the Kevlar CPU case. -Sean ---- Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein. I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" -- Emo Philips. Love is two minutes, 52 seconds of squishing noises. -- Johnny Rotten.
Sean Cundiff wrote: Time to increase the tensile strength of CD/DVD media Actually typically with higher tensile strengths comes small critical crack lengths. So you want high fracture toughness or greater ductility in the material. What happens is you get a small crack in the edge of the disk and around that crack tip you have much higher stresses. If the material were more ductile it yield and distribute the stress over a larger area. In the case of existing disks they shatter. So if you want to make a disk unusable just put a deep scratch in the surface towards the outside edge. "I will find a new sig someday."
