At 7:47 PM -0700 8/27/2012, Clark Martin wrote:
You should check out the Myth Busters episode about exploding
optical drives. It was one of their first episodes. Short story is
that with normal discs no drive they tried could destroy a disc. I
think they did have some failure after abusing the discs
(Microwaving was one method). They finally got a normal disc to
fail by mounting it on a die grinder and, IIRC, running the die
grinder off of 220V, twice it's rated voltage.
Loved that ep!
Older discs can become rather brittle, especially if damaged in any
way. I've had two ancient discs break apart in the drive. That
ramp-up after a read error is killer, crack-crunch-screeeeech...
- Dan.
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