Maplin CD's shatter in drive

"Rob Morley" wrote in message
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In article , "John Blundell"
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In article , Dave
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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 :-)

Interesting, Nero 'aint a bad outfit, I'll give it a try if and when I've
shattered a CD! "Shutting the barn door after........................" ;-)

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


Nero comes with something called Drivespeed which allows you to artificially
limit the CD speed. Good for making your computer a bit quieter !

In article , SLP
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"John Blundell" wrote in message
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If you have a fast CD-ROM drive, is there any way to limit its speed to
something safe?

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 for this info. It looks good.

Thanks also to Rob and "" for their replies.

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"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.

I'm sure I read somewhere that a 52X drive spins the disk at up to 27000
RPM.

"Dave" wrote in message
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"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.

problem is, CD drives in the shops are getting faster, not slower...

Did the discs state a speed? I know my CDRW manual came with a yellow
warning sheet warning not to use cheap or slow media, as it can sometimes
shatter at high speeds.

"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?

"PabloCreep" wrote in message
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Did the discs state a speed?

no, it was just a flat pack of 100 blank CD-R's in clear plastic. The Maplin
product code was ZH63.