18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
12:30 p.m.
At 01:39 PM 10/17/2005, Bob Bradlee wrote:
Is this exploding CDs at 52X speeds reason IBM had many CD drives
derated to 20X-48X ranges?
Cheers, Wizard
With the aid of a paperclip and a prybar, I opened
up the drive to fine a
shattered CD inside. I took one look at it and asked what had happened
in shock, it was shattered in a hundred pieces.
But I've seen this happen *twice* to a client who wasn't
dunking them in LOX. CDs are spinning quite quickly.
In this case, they were pressed CDs - cheap games, surely,
perhaps they even came in a cereal box.
- John