On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:31:45AM -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > > I would not put a cracked CD into any drive. That's flying, plastic shards > waiting to happen. Especially since most drives now are 32x or faster--they > are spinning very fast. 52x is 10k rpm, 65m/s linear velocity on the outer > edge. That's a lot of force for a cracked disk to have to withstand.
I'm pretty sure they did this in a Mythbusters once. I really think you should copy the CD before it explodes. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
