strange things

[astro]

Has anyone ever heard of a CD exploding and going into hundreds of peices while running. This happen to my grandson yesterday while playing a game on my PC. He and my wife thought another grandchild had hit the tower with something. It popped and the drawer flies open and then back part of the way shut, never to work again. She said the peices that they retrieved was very hot. Thanks.

[cableguy69]

Yep. That's what happens when they use cheap CD's to put games on. When they're in these ultra fast CDROM drives, they get hot and spin like hell. The cheap ones can only take so much before they break up.

[Peter M]

That happens with those cheap&fast _drives_ whose designers didn't bother implement vibration detection and avoidance techniques. Can you say resonance catastrophy? Spend the extra $20 to buy a drive from a reputable brand this time.

regards, Peter

[Kurylo]

That happens on ALL CD-drives which run at speeds MORE than 40x.

[astro]

This was a 50x Afreey CDROM and the CD game was RED ALERT bought from the retail store. How much more careful can you be. If this is a so call cheap CDROM, what would be your choice, Peter?

[Kurylo]

This happens not with cheap CD-ROMs that happens with fast CD-ROMs.

My friends (5 or 6 of them) had 44x-48x CD-ROMs, and all they made such things. I recommended them to move to TEAC CD-540E (because I had the same experience) and they did it.
They thank me 100 times after that.

[Peter M]

TEAC, Plextor, Pioneer, Yamaha. It'll have to be a DVD drive then, 'cause most of the major brands stopped making CDROM drives quite a while ago.

Especially the Pioneer drives have a fine vibration control - and they've had it ever since the 8x drives.

regards, Peter