Today I had a first
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In all my years of using a CD reader, I have never experienced this before. I had my trusty Windows 2000 CD in a machine I was setting, and then I heard a small crashing noise coming from the CD reader. The CD drive wouldn't open and the install could no longer continue. I opened up the machine and removed the CD reader. With a gentle shake it sounded like a box of glass Christmas ornaments that had been sent through the post. I had to take the CD reader apart to see what had happened. I opened it up and my once trusty Windows 2000 CD was now in a hundred pieces. I guess the centrifugal forces finally became too much for it. The interesting thing was that there was no warning,. no cracks in the CD, no scratches, just boom.
In all my years of using a CD reader, I have never experienced this before. I had my trusty Windows 2000 CD in a machine I was setting, and then I heard a small crashing noise coming from the CD reader. The CD drive wouldn't open and the install could no longer continue. I opened up the machine and removed the CD reader. With a gentle shake it sounded like a box of glass Christmas ornaments that had been sent through the post. I had to take the CD reader apart to see what had happened. I opened it up and my once trusty Windows 2000 CD was now in a hundred pieces. I guess the centrifugal forces finally became too much for it. The interesting thing was that there was no warning,. no cracks in the CD, no scratches, just boom.
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Personally, about the only seat on a plane I will not take at all, is the one in the second to last row of those planes.
BTW: The research people in the drive industry say that 3.5" drives are over. At 3.5" the centrifugal force and wabble are sufficient at the edges when turning at 10,000 rpm, that they are approaching greater distances than the density of data -- essentially the wobble becomes great than the variation.
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