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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.

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Gravatar Image1 - This was discussed and tested on "Mythbusters" at one point. The "myth" was of users being injured in the process. Ultimately, the case generally contains the burst -- just like an airplane engine cowling is designed with kevlar to contain a rotor burst. In the case of a certain engine used on some DC-9 / MD-80 / MD-88 variants, it does not.

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.

Gravatar Image2 - When we first did SmartSuite on CD, we had to have them redone. Because of the way logos on the CDs, and the colors used, more paint was on one side of the CD side than the other which led to wobble on greater than 8x drives which in turn led to read errors and support calls.

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