CD Burner going crazy

[COOLCAT]

Do this happen to any one else or it just me.
Or probley some thing wrong with the burner it
self.

Some how I think the burner spin too fast that
it put cracks in my cd. And some time break the
cd in piecies.

Does this happen to anyone else? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[j-kid]

Re: CD Burner going crazy

I have heard of that happening, but have never personally experienced it myself. Does the unit play and burn disk OK otherwise?

[COOLCAT]

Re: CD Burner going crazy

Yes, it burn cd very well. If playing a cd it doesn't break the cd apart.

It shaterd the cd during burning. It spin so fast
that you could hear whisling sound coming from it.

Now I am wondering if the burner is defective why
its messing up cds like that.

[j-kid]

Re: CD Burner going crazy

PCWORLD:

Consumer Alert: Shattered: This CD's in Tatters?
High-speed drives increase the chances that a defective CD will explode.

Melissa J. Perenson

If you hear an intense vibrating noise or a bang from your superfast 48X CD-ROM or CD-RW drive, beware: Your disc may be shattering.

Robert Resovich, application engineering manager at drive maker Plextor, says that a CD's generally vulnerable inner ring becomes more so when the disc is spun in the newest drives (currently the standard is 48X/24X/48X). "You get upwards of 10,000 rpm, and at the outer edge, that's roughly the equivalent of 150 miles an hour," he explains. "At that speed, things can come apart."

User Ricardo Kustner discovered that the problem may occur even with slower drives. When he put a Microsoft Windows NT 4 installation CD with a tiny crack into his 24X CD-ROM drive, "it started to make a spinning noise, and then suddenly a loud crack." When he opened the drive, the disc had shattered.

The threat isn't dire: Esteban Kim, marketing manager at CD-ROM and CD-RW drive manufacturer Lite-On, notes that drives capable of reading at 48X and 52X have only a 0.01 to 0.02 percent risk of causing a disc to shatter--the equivalent of 1 to 2 discs for every 10,000.

Resovich says discs must suffer from a serious defect to shatter. Examples include brittleness caused by repeatedly snapping discs in and out of cases or drives in portable players or laptops, and imperfect balance, perhaps from an off-center or wrinkled label.

CD-ROM vendors such as Plextor are trying to improve disc balancing techniques and to build stronger drives. Still, the next time you pop a CD into a drive, be sure to look for abnormalities that could cause the disc to splinter.

Source

[Guest]

Re: CD Burner going crazy

Originally posted by Legal:
[qb]Some how I think the burner spin too fast that
it put cracks in my cd. And some time break the
cd in piecies. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/qb]

Bad but kinda cool at the same time. J Kid's response suggests that this effect puts a limit on the speed of current technology.

[j-kid]

Re: CD Burner going crazy

Noooo man, dem wi solve di problem jus by meking di disk demselves more durable. Always always make duplicates of your valuable data.

[Guest]

Re: CD Burner going crazy

Originally posted by J kid:
[qb] Noooo man, dem wi solve di problem jus by meking di disk demselves more durable. Always always make duplicates of your valuable data. [/qb]

Duplicates are good advice