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chrisrod01

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So I was watching a movie and when i was done i insert the warcraft cd in the disk drive. And after that i decide to restart cause it was getting a little laggy.So i restart the computer while im in the restroom and all of the sudden my comp make a loud 747 airplane sound!!! The first reaction i get was wtf so a head toward my comp and turn it off by switching the psu on/off button. Later i found out when i restart it again the disk drive broke the warcraft cd in tons of little pieces. The good news i had mine but that was my friend that he never plays that game.LOL
 
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There have been reported cases of 48X/52X CD-ROM drives causing cracked/flawed CDs to shatter. You can calculate the amount of centripetal force/acceleration going on at the edge of a CD-ROM at 52X speed... it's quite a lot.

If there is any sort of flaw in the material, or the drive is unstable, it can easily cause the disc to break at that speed.

The good news is that you don't actually need the WoW disc to play the game, just to install it. 😛
 
If there is any sort of flaw in the material, or the drive is unstable, it can easily cause the disc to break at that speed.
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Yes, they demonstrated that on an episode of Mythbusters. If the CD is in good shape, it's fine to spin at 52X speed, but if it has enough of a structural flaw, spinning it that fast will cause it to break apart in a fairly destructive way.
 
I had one of the Maximum PC CDs about 2 years ago that must have had a crack in it that I never saw. I put it in the drive and installed one of the utilities or something and just as it started to slow down, there was a crack and then the sound of bits of CD bouncing around in the drive and a grinding noise. When it stopped, I pushed the eject button and it started grinding and then went dead.

After I put the new burner in, I opened up the trashed one and the biggest piece of the CD was maybe about 14" square, but most of the remains were about half that big, and a lot of powered cd was there too.

I look at them before I put them in now. I found a Ritek 8X DVD+R recently, in the lower middle part of a stack of 100 I am trying to use up, with two 1/4" cracks along the OUTER rim. The cracks were on opposite sides of the disk, but not exactly lined up 180 degrees apart. I bet it would have come apart with a bang.
 
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