Maplin CD's shatter in drive

twice in the last month I've had the shock of a CD-R (that I bought from
Maplin) exploding in the CD-drive. It's happened now in two different
drives, both 52speed CD-Rom drives. It makes a right bank when it shatters
and it ruins the drive completely. Anyone else had this happen?

"net" wrote in message
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twice in the last month I've had the shock of a CD-R (that I bought from
Maplin) exploding in the CD-drive. It's happened now in two different
drives, both 52speed CD-Rom drives. It makes a right bank when it shatters
and it ruins the drive completely. Anyone else had this happen?

Apparently this isn't all that uncommon with 52X cd drives and poor media.
However, not being an owner of a 52X drive I don't know that much about
this.

"net" wrote in message
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twice in the last month I've had the shock of a CD-R (that I bought from
Maplin) exploding in the CD-drive. It's happened now in two different
drives, both 52speed CD-Rom drives. It makes a right bank when it shatters
and it ruins the drive completely. Anyone else had this happen?

Happened on a friend's 52x CDROM drive. Can't remember if it was a CDR or
audio CD. It trashed the drive. Have read of others with the same problem.
It put me right off 52x drives.

"net" wrote in message
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twice in the last month I've had the shock of a CD-R (that I bought from
Maplin) exploding in the CD-drive. It's happened now in two different
drives, both 52speed CD-Rom drives. It makes a right bank when it shatters
and it ruins the drive completely. Anyone else had this happen?

52x is way beyond the spec of CD-ROMs. The forces on the disk at such high
rotational speeds are massive and I'm not surprised you're finding they
shatter. Get a nice 32x drive and be happy.

In article , Dave
writes
52x is way beyond the spec of CD-ROMs. The forces on the disk at such high
rotational speeds are massive and I'm not surprised you're finding they
shatter. Get a nice 32x drive and be happy.

If you have a fast CD-ROM drive, is there any way to limit its speed to
something safe?

--
John Blundell

"John Blundell" wrote in message
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In article , Dave
writes
52x is way beyond the spec of CD-ROMs. The forces on the disk at such
high
rotational speeds are massive and I'm not surprised you're finding they
shatter. Get a nice 32x drive and be happy.

If you have a fast CD-ROM drive, is there any way to limit its speed to
something safe?


Not to my knowledge! I have used a 52X since they came out never had a
problem (touch wood).

CB
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http://mysite.freeserve.com/cravenbirds

"John Blundell" wrote in message
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In article , Dave
writes
52x is way beyond the spec of CD-ROMs. The forces on the disk at such
high
rotational speeds are massive and I'm not surprised you're finding they
shatter. Get a nice 32x drive and be happy.

If you have a fast CD-ROM drive, is there any way to limit its speed to
something safe?

--
John Blundell

I've known this to happen once with a customer - an audio CD shattered in
the drive, sending broken shards flying right the way across the room. It's
lucky he wasn't standing in front of the PC at the time....


I haven't tried this program myself, as I tend to stick to using slower CD
drives, but it should slow your drive down to whatever speed you choose.


http://download.com.com/3002-2086-10164235.html?tag=dir

SLP

"net" wrote in message
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twice in the last month I've had the shock of a CD-R (that I bought from
Maplin) exploding in the CD-drive. It's happened now in two different
drives, both 52speed CD-Rom drives. It makes a right bank when it shatters
and it ruins the drive completely. Anyone else had this happen?


This is come up before

See http://tinyurl.com/zndz

See also:

http://www.paintbug.com/cdexplode/

Note the recommendations of wearing protective clothing and eye protection.

A Kevlar vest may be good idea

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In article , "John Blundell"
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In article , Dave
writes
52x is way beyond the spec of CD-ROMs. The forces on the disk at such high
rotational speeds are massive and I'm not surprised you're finding they
shatter. Get a nice 32x drive and be happy.

If you have a fast CD-ROM drive, is there any way to limit its speed to
something safe?


http://www.cdspeed2000.com/go.php3?l...rivespeed.html
Don't know if it works - just did a Google :-)

"SLP" wrote in message
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"John Blundell" wrote in message
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In article , Dave
writes
52x is way beyond the spec of CD-ROMs. The forces on the disk at such
high
rotational speeds are massive and I'm not surprised you're finding they
shatter. Get a nice 32x drive and be happy.

If you have a fast CD-ROM drive, is there any way to limit its speed to
something safe?

--
John Blundell

I've known this to happen once with a customer - an audio CD shattered in
the drive, sending broken shards flying right the way across the room.
It's
lucky he wasn't standing in front of the PC at the time....


I haven't tried this program myself, as I tend to stick to using slower CD
drives, but it should slow your drive down to whatever speed you choose.


http://download.com.com/3002-2086-10164235.html?tag=dir


thanks very much for this link SLP. I'll give CD Speed 3.1 a try.