Thread: Xbox 360 Built In Disk Destroyer!

ohhhhhh - if there is a series of that going on, ohhh Microsoft are going to have some serious trouble.. could be the ultimate end to a very eventful product launch!!

we wait and see..

I would say that was funny, but actually its really not!!!

There was a guy from "Best Buy" at the end, commenting on the disk destroying thing. The video on the site below is hilarious.

http://www.smashmyxbox.com/

That's nothing new, pretty much any system where the CD is held in a tray, then rotated whilst the disk is spinning will do that.

It's something to do with angular momentum... same reason why a bike is more stable the faster you go, but also harder to turn corners. The wheel becomes "heavier" to rotate.

And yes... try moving a PC CD/DVD drive whilst it's spinning and you'll destry the disc inside. (I discovered to my detriment.)

That's like trying to rotate a gyroscope while it's spinning, you can really feel the inertia as you try to tip it off-axis. I guess that disc was spinning pretty quickly, imagine the forces at the edges when it was moved!

Still, it's bad design to have two things in the CD drive that can mess up a disk like that.

I've never had a CD mess up in a portable CD player, and that gets moved about all over the place.

Your portable will spin it at very low speeds compared to a modern drive. The portable only has to read at effectively single speed - If it read it any faster, then you can guarantee it'd wreck the CD unless it was held with a firm clip as they are in laptops.

I know the drives in the xbox's would be 50x+ faster, but its a obvious movement from standing up to, sitting flat, its just a bad drive.

At the end of the day, what idiot is going to be moving his xbox around like that when its powered on?

And anyway I am sure once they do it then they wont do it again!

depends if they are smart enough to put 2+2 together (i.e. it made that noise because I moved a spinning disk in operation = broken disk) :P