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| Thread ID: 104864 | 2009-11-11 00:01:00 | My CD freaking EXPLODED! | Thebananamonkey (7741) | Press F1 |
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| 828906 | 2009-11-11 00:01:00 | I've been up-converting all of my MP3's to Apple Lossless (~1000kbps!) recently. Put a CD in this morning before I had my shower and came back to hear a skill saw... or what turned out to be my DVD drive. I took it out and opened the drive (warranty expired long ago) and had the pieces come out all over the place. Cleaned it out with air and reconnected it, but it was way too far gone to work again. Ordered a new one from Ascent and threw that one in the bin. Anyone had this happen before? P.S. I took the drive off the rails that my case uses yesterday and replaced it with screws and rubber grommets to reduce the noise when it's working at top speed. Didn't want to fit initially, so I squeezed the sides of the drive bay in and got purchase with the screws. Would the outwards pressure from the bay be enough to destroy the drive??? |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 828907 | 2009-11-11 00:17:00 | Generally the drive wont be a direct cause of a cd /DVD exploding. The CD will more than likely have had a crack in it, ( some are VERY tiny/ hair line cracks) usually from the center and when the drive spun up the CD, it grew = BANG!! In the process, distroying the internals of the drive. ANY CD / DVD can blow apart at any time. Edited: Highly doubt it was the mounting, have a look at This picture (www.tweak3d.net) - as you can see the CD sits on a spindle. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 828908 | 2009-11-11 00:20:00 | Its common enough, and as Wanui says its generally the CD at fault, And it happens when the CD drive spins the CD up to insane speeds, many many times faster then the CD would spin at if were just playing back music. CD's get brittle and damaged over time, and some just cant handle the stress. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 828909 | 2009-11-11 00:21:00 | Yep, very rare. I've seen one. Very funny if it's not your drive. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 828910 | 2009-11-11 00:22:00 | I guess so. I polished it first, and it looked pretty immaculate, but I guess I could have missed something. It was entertaining and I didn't particularly like the CD that much anyway (Foo Fighters 1st CD, they definitely got better from there). I'm surprised that with BluRay coming out DVD drives are still fairly expensive. ~$80 for a replacement. Also, I'm looking for a job at the moment so this means I can't play any games (apart form steam ones) while passing time... sigh. |
Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 828911 | 2009-11-11 00:48:00 | I'm surprised that with BluRay coming out DVD drives are still fairly expensive. ~$80 for a replacement. $80 is cheap. :stare: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 828912 | 2009-11-11 00:54:00 | I swear I bought my DVD drive for $40 or something when I put my computer together. That's coming out of what I was putting aside for a Xonar STX (Damn). | Thebananamonkey (7741) | ||
| 828913 | 2009-11-11 01:06:00 | at 52x, the linear velocity of the outermost part of the disk is around 65 to 163 meters per second (235 km/h to 588 km/h From: en.wikipedia.org At those speeds, it's not surprising that a hairline crack could cause the disk to disintegrate. |
somebody (208) | ||
| 828914 | 2009-11-11 01:09:00 | ...up-converting all of my MP3's to Apple Lossless (~1000kbps!)...You do realise that won't actually gain you any quality, right? They'll still sound more or less the same as the original MP3; if you want it to sound better you'll need to re-rip the original CD directly. Transcoding will *never* result in a gain in quality, and usually results in a loss. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 828915 | 2009-11-11 01:16:00 | You do realise that won't actually gain you any quality, right? They'll still sound more or less the same as the original MP3; if you want it to sound better you'll need to re-rip the original CD directly. Transcoding will *never* result in a gain in quality, and usually results in a loss. Slightly OT Erayd, but what, in your opinion, is the best codec/bitrate? I usually go 320kbps as space isn't an issue anymore. |
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