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Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive

Posted by michael on from the science-at-its-finest dept.

UnknownSoldier writes "Ever wondered how fast CD-ROM drives can spin their CDs before the CD will self destruct due to centrifugal force? This person was too, and has his results. (So much for those 100x drives)."

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  1. If you want to go even faster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    you could spin *both* the disc and the reading head (in opposite directions).

  2. Re:Google cache by dimator · · Score: 5, Funny

    The karma whore for this story is here

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  3. Re:Why even spin the disk at all? by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    something more exact then a laser reading pits and grooves burned into plastic that are invisible to the human eye? Pft...why would CONSUMERS have access to such technology.