username Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Have you ever loaded a faulty CD into a high speed (30X or higher) CD-ROM player, heard it spin up to incredible speeds, rattling and whining, and thought to yourself: "this thing is going to explode"? When CDs came out they were heralded as the solution for the need for high storage-high speed information devices, transferring data at a whopping 150kb/s, but like all technologies, 1x CD players quickly became obsolete as the need for higher and higher transfer rates pushed for faster players, and, with them, higher rotational speeds. As we advance into the 21st century CD players are reaching the ultimate speed limit: we are getting to the point where the CD player simply can not spin the CD any faster or else the CD will literally fly apart. Source Video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dL Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Yes, that's true. I guess they may have to invent another way of reading CD without spinning it :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHAres Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 I retired a thousand pieces from inside a CD reader from my nephew PC. His old (and maybe defective) "Worms" CD exploded with a big noise... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trashpickinman Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 finally a good use for aol cds.... Science :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.dan Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 couldn't they just put two lasers opposite each other? that way data could be read twice as fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted June 20, 2003 Author Share Posted June 20, 2003 couldn't they just put two lasers opposite each other? that way data could be read twice as fast there was a drive that did that, i forget he make, anyways, performance never was better then 32X or so i recall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos-X Posted June 28, 2003 Share Posted June 28, 2003 Me and my band tried using a drill to do this on thursday...didnt make the CD explode...but friday, we got ahold of a dremel. w00t. We had approx. 35 faulty CDs that had writing or mp3s that were already backed up. We recorded our trials, but I dont have an adapter for my camera so I cant get the footage online...YET! My favorite trial: The cd bounced across the street , hit the top of the curb and exploded. Upon exploding, one of the pieces was shot 100ft back into my garage hitting the canoe and further shattering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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