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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. hmm by nomadic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ever wondered how fast CD-ROM drives can spin their CDs before the CD will self destruct due to centrifugal force?

    I can honestly say, no, I haven't.

  2. I know cd copy protection sucks .... by Darth+Paul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... but there are better ways to deal with it. Really.

  3. Direct Optical Scan by ironfroggy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    At one point I toyed with a very advanced computer idea in my head, a pass time I live in it seems.

    Basically, a modular compoment system with all surfaces touch, heat, light, etc sensitive. high res/color displays on surfaces as well. Fast enough asyncronous parallel processing and you just lay a cd on the surface and the cd pits are scanned like an image and processed. What a nut my mind is sometimes. About a billion layers of abstraction between the CD and reading the actual data. Thought I'd share..

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