CDROM Snapping CD'S!

[Jose_R.A.M]

Have any of you ever experienced this?

I was just trying to install an expansion pack game on to my PC and when it finally finished I took the cd out and noticed it was cleanly sliced on one side.

Annoyingly the ep also somehow uninstalled itself from my PC...

I've read on the net where people have had worse and the cd cracks into hundreds of pieces and bits fling out everywhere!

I'm not touching it incase it breaks anymore CDS.

I did think that this could be the new way of preventing piracy..if it triggers something it snaps your CD! :D :rolleyes:[not that i was doing anything like that - just installing ]

I know I should expect it if I put funny shaped CDS in there (funny as in non-circular) but this was a normal CD.

Apparently its just because the CD (somehow) was off-centre and the highspeed caused it to snap.

[MikeUK]

Wow, that sukcs, I've never had a CD snap! Or be damages in anyway.

[brad]

Its not that rare actually, the most common cause is small cracks from the center of the disk. When the CD gets to the high speed that they do in current drives, the small cracks can become very dangerous.

Anything above a 48x CD-ROM drive is actually classed as unsafe, as it brings the CDs right to their fracture point.

[Jose_R.A.M]

lol, then why have 48x + ?? (yeah i know theres a valid reason...)

[666joe]

Seen a CD rom come out in a thousand pieces - 48x does spin awfully fast so I stuck with floppies ! lol

[zeem35]

lol - yea once my frnd had the experience looooong time bk when i was skoolin.. may b 3 yrs bk.. he brought the drive to school it was in a weird shape.. da cd has blasted when it was runnin.. da tray was tryin to jump out lol..
da reason i think cuz of damage cds.. never insert a crack cd.. inside..
inspect well before insertin cuz sum sratches also might end up blastin..

[Jose_R.A.M]

The drive though is x40...

[MikeUK]

Seen a CD rom come out in a thousand pieces - 48x does spin awfully fast so I stuck with floppies ! lol
I swear that's not possible lol, floppies suck! For giving people files I use CD/DVDs 'cause they're usually to big for a floppy, and I store my current work on a USB stick.

[brad]

lol, then why have 48x + ?? (yeah i know theres a valid reason...)
The only higher speed then 48x is 52x, and drives that advertise this speed don't actually run that high by default - it must be enabled somehow. For example, my flatmates computer has a 52x Sony CD-ROM in it, but to get it to spin that fast you need to insert a CD then hold down the eject button untill the light blinks a special way.

[Jose_R.A.M]

I reckon it was already slightly broken when I put it in.

I blame my sister. :p she used it last.

[carcomptoy]

I blame my sister. :p she used it last.
Always the case right;)

Honestly my sister can be so blonde sometimes...

[Jose_R.A.M]

I just saw Mythbusters and they tested the "myth" of CD's exploding in the drive.

Wow! Their ballistic dummy had shrapnel embedded over 2 inches deep!

But they said the average user has nothing to fear, even if somehow it did happen, the casing would/should protect them.

In their tests at times they were going at 25k RPMS and above, most likely that nobody will have a cd drive going at those speeds.

It was quite frightening that the CD's exploded sooner when they were spinning with a tray rather than simply spinning suspended on the drive.

[carcomptoy]

It was quite frightening that the CD's exploded sooner when they were spinning with a tray rather than simply spinning suspended on the drive.
Really now?? Quite paradoxical...:cool:

[Jose_R.A.M]

I think that when spinning freely without the tray, at high speeds the cd would warp to dissipate this extra energy. When the tray is there it just adds friction and prevents it from doing that...I'm not sure but that's what seemed to happen.

[carcomptoy]

That would make sense...

[Jose_R.A.M]

I still do not know for definate what caused mine to snap a cd, and until I find out (or get a new cd drive) I'm not going to be using it again.