And one more for luck
Mar. 17th, 2002 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI just discovered that in a 40x CD player, the outer rim of the disk is moving at 677km/hour or 55% of the speed of sound.
Digging a little deeper, I discover that a single speed CD-ROM can manage up to 500 RPM. Of course, that's CLV, whereas modern CD drives are CAV. Still, I wonder what speed 40x CD drives actually spin at.
Anyway round, that's really, really fast.
Digging a little deeper, I discover that a single speed CD-ROM can manage up to 500 RPM. Of course, that's CLV, whereas modern CD drives are CAV. Still, I wonder what speed 40x CD drives actually spin at.
Anyway round, that's really, really fast.
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Date: 2002-03-17 07:45 pm (UTC)That's it. Tomorrow, I'm opening the CD drive while it's spinning. I'm going to shoot those fuckers through walls!
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Date: 2002-03-18 09:50 pm (UTC)Who knew PCs could be so deadly?