52x burner crushes media

I don't know about penetrating steel... but I've had that happen to me on a regular 52x CD-ROM:

http://www.fury-tech.com/images/user/Tekime/cd00.jpg

http://www.fury-tech.com/images/user/Tekime/cd01.jpg

hmm

I believe it is quite possible.

Consider the angular velocity of the edge of a disc, a plastic shard breaks off all of the angular velocity gets turned into instantenous linear acceleration (because the point of break constitutes a change in refrence frame). If it catches a nice point behind a suffecient shaped chunk of disc.

Say hello to Humpty's Revenge.

Yeah....and if a tornado can shoot a piece of straw through a telephone pole, I imagine a sharp piece of plastic could make it's way through the drive's bezel.....but it DOES sound very unlikely that the plastic could penetrate the metal drive casing and continue on to damage components on a motherboard...But hey, I guess it's possible..

-Ryan

So what's the latest fireware update? And where can I find it?

http://www.liteon.com/prod/getDriver...id=2&cid=1_7_2 doesn't have anything.

I just made some calculations and at 12000rpm, witch is less then what a 52X will do, the outer edge of a CD is going at 167Mph(linear). That means a cd piece can easyly hit the cd-rom case at 150Mph.

It's quite unlikely that it would be able to go trough the metal case, but the back is sometimes made of plastic so it may be possible.

Hey, life's a b1tch.

Yea well um....

APRIL FOOLS!

I got some people to believe, i kind of thought of this at the last minute and didn't have time to photoshop some pics.

Also my HD started spining to fast, came off the spindle, and started a tornadoe. Wait for the lastest firmware fix.

just keeping the holiday alive.

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Originally posted by melee
Yea well um....

APRIL FOOLS!

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Haha! Nice one man. Almost believable, too, pranking 'tis an art :)

Believe it or not a few people actually thought I was serious in my 'Poisson d'Avril' newspost: linkage. I decided to add that last line in after a few worried responses, lol.. It's amazing what people will believe sometimes :)

they are canceling april fools day no way.

nicely done i like the bush qoute very realilstic

Actually this CD exploding crap supposedly can really happen...

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105458,00.asp (this article isn't from April Fools)

thats where i herd it from first. I wanted to make it realistic and i added that the shards with the motherboard.

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Originally posted by EverlastingGod
Actually this CD exploding crap supposedly can really happen...

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,105458,00.asp (this article isn't from April Fools)

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The pics I posted weren't a joke, so I can attest to that. It made it out partially intact, but shards of CD were stuck throughout the entire unit. This was about a year ago and I'm still using the same drive, though :)