- Joined
- Aug 19, 2002
- Location
- Redmond, Washington
Just had a CD shatter in the drive
As the title suggests. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Was trying to listen to a CD with iTunes and it weren't playing. Of course iTunes freezes up, so I quit it. But the CD keeps spinning up and then slowing down. I re-open iTunes and there's this terrible racket which can only mean one thing. There are shards everywhere. I guess I can be happy that the drive was shielded enough to keep plastic from flying out, since my case is both open and sitting right next to my leg, but I'm furious.
A) Manufacturers knew the physical limitations of optical drives and even talked about not being able to make a drive any faster due to the possibility of a shattered disk and needing to beef up the case should it happen. Thus they should have stopped speeding them up when it became a problem. Who on earth needs to listen to a CD at 40X? It'll play at 1X, will it not? MAN!
B) They make 52X drives and mine's only 40X. I don't know what the difference is in RPM, but mine has to be a lot slower. This shouldn't have happened ANYWAY, but certainly not in a high-end V6 of CD-ROMS.
C) I understand that it's the fault of the media, particularly the stupid labels and stuff on the top that make them impossible to balance, let alone spin smoothly at God knows how many RPM! Why can't they just stop painting the disk? I know what I'm listening to: I got it out of it's case with the express purpose to listen to it. Unless I'm completely stupid or ridiculously obsessive compulsive, I don't need reassurance that I've in fact got the CD I want in my hand!
D) What should I do? Is the drive still operable? I tend to think it's probably not. Will LiteOn fix it or replace it? I hardly think it's my own fault. I really don't want to clean this out. I really doubt how well compressed air will work to get shards of plastic and paint out of an enclosed space.
BAH!
What a day
Z
As the title suggests. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Was trying to listen to a CD with iTunes and it weren't playing. Of course iTunes freezes up, so I quit it. But the CD keeps spinning up and then slowing down. I re-open iTunes and there's this terrible racket which can only mean one thing. There are shards everywhere. I guess I can be happy that the drive was shielded enough to keep plastic from flying out, since my case is both open and sitting right next to my leg, but I'm furious.
A) Manufacturers knew the physical limitations of optical drives and even talked about not being able to make a drive any faster due to the possibility of a shattered disk and needing to beef up the case should it happen. Thus they should have stopped speeding them up when it became a problem. Who on earth needs to listen to a CD at 40X? It'll play at 1X, will it not? MAN!
B) They make 52X drives and mine's only 40X. I don't know what the difference is in RPM, but mine has to be a lot slower. This shouldn't have happened ANYWAY, but certainly not in a high-end V6 of CD-ROMS.
C) I understand that it's the fault of the media, particularly the stupid labels and stuff on the top that make them impossible to balance, let alone spin smoothly at God knows how many RPM! Why can't they just stop painting the disk? I know what I'm listening to: I got it out of it's case with the express purpose to listen to it. Unless I'm completely stupid or ridiculously obsessive compulsive, I don't need reassurance that I've in fact got the CD I want in my hand!
D) What should I do? Is the drive still operable? I tend to think it's probably not. Will LiteOn fix it or replace it? I hardly think it's my own fault. I really don't want to clean this out. I really doubt how well compressed air will work to get shards of plastic and paint out of an enclosed space.
BAH!
What a day
Z