Mythbusters - Exploding CD

[@OurLadyOfSorrows4]

This is the most 2000s thing I've ever seen. I love it when they're like: "They're so fast! And that's only NOW! What does the future hold??!" Amazing.

[@-Gous-]

No CDs, that's what the future holded 😁

[@konradfoyle]

@@-Gous- I was thinking the very same thing xD

[@cringlez1096]

I couldn't agree more! This is such an interesting look back on our past, really shows how much technology has changed, even surpassing David Bunzel's expectations...

[@ScorpiusZA.]

Today's people - "What's a CD?" I remember when the in thing was the speed of your CD-ROM drive. 64x was the top of the range - iirc. CD's are now my coffee coasters.

[@whyarewehere3893]

Tbf we still use cd for games

[@TheSFMCreators]

"What does the future hold?" *laughs in solid state*

[@toastyidk.1176]

Kyle Robinson ahahaha that is SO funny

[@mcchoxseno454]

I waited for this solid state comment since this episode came out.

[@TheSFMCreators]

@@mcchoxseno454 happy to finally provide closure

[@blackgenesisishere]

yup :)

[@Ward1706]

Although, he wasn't wrong about the different lasers being used though.

[@StrangerOnTheWeb]

"What does the future hold?" Not CD's thats for sure

[@SiNFPVGUAM]

And no mini disc.

[@tardiscommand1812]

Too soon! I’m still in mourning. Also a vintage shout out to 5” floppies.

[@kw7814]

2:30 "flat screen"

[@WingMaster562]

Humor aside, they ain't wrong. A common CRT has curved screen, and having a flat screen was uncommon. Until LCD aka "flat screens" become cheaper and better.

[@Noki0100]

@@WingMaster562 I have a 19" Sony Trinitron Flat Screen (I think a P1110). It was huge and weighed a metric tonne. Best image quality screen I have ever had to this day.

[@dextrodemon]

@@WingMaster562 flat screen crts were normal for a couple of years before lcd and plasma came out

[@WingMaster562]

@@dextrodemon The mere fact that someone finds a flat screen crt worthy of being pointed out, and having the same comment upvoted by a number of people already makes implies it's uncommon in some places.

[@Slash27015]

I remember having a cutting edge B&O TV in a nice wood finish from the mid 1980's. It had a flat piece of glass infront of the TV, like it was a TV within a TV, and it made it the most cutting edge technology ever as the front was all flat.

[@JC130676]

4:23 When Hyneman makes something so savage, even Savage takes a step back.

[@mickeymouse12678]

Adam: "Are you sure that this is a balanced enough mechanism to handle six times its current load?" Jamie: *holding a modified drill* "It uh...says it's heavy duty." LOL

[@AndrewBrowner]

thats an angle grinder... and it wasnt modified in the slightest when he was holding it

[@DaReaperZ]

I've actually had this happen to me! I let a friend borrow my Heroes of Might and Magic 3 disc, and I went over to his place as well. Well, we put it in as per usual, and while it was installing, the sound coming from the CD-drive was horrifying. It was spinning up, really fast it sounded like. Then there was a small "explosion" sound and the installation stopped. The drive couldn't be opened either. So we opened the computer and pulled out the drive, forced the gate open and we found small tiny scraps and pieces of the CD inside. It had damaged the drive to the point where it was unusable, there were even dents in the metal. We tried pouring out the remains of my disc, but the thing never stopped rattling. At the time I was quite young.. maybe 10? Not quite sure. Years later we bought the Heroes 3 complete edition instead :)

[@dragonsdynamite6403]

What a game!

[@Excalibre2007]

1:12 I just saw Jamie genuinely smile and It’s literally the sweetest thing I saw today

[@lemo_manda6076]

True

[@twizz420]

He smiled all the time on the show lol

[@larnregis]

I once had a PC with a 8xCD ROM drive (yes, was long ago with slow 8x speed drives) which had a broken stopping mechanism. So if it read a CD and you were pressing the eject button, the CD ROM opened while the CD was still spinning with maximum speed. It was like a catapult and the CDs flew across my entire room when ejected this way. And of course did the CDs shattered into smithereens when they hit the opposite wall, which was about 3-4 meters away. But some also were quite sturdy and they bounced off the wall and flew like the death-disc weapon in the Dolph Lundgren movie "Dark Angel".

[@eviltigz]

Very common issue, I had one of those 16x Creative drives when they first came out (as a multimedia kit with the Creative Awe 32 Sound Card). When it fully reved up it would shake the entire desktop and the coffee table it was sitting on. My neighbor thought I was using a drill. I have to say "Dark Angel" was a classic...

[@hamishhamilton7089]

That sounds fun XD

[@rex1054]

***** no sutch thing as 70x Cd's, only 52x max.

[@rex1054]

***** really? i did not know that....WTF i must search that. Who the fuck needs a CD reader with a jet engine?

[@rex1054]

never in my life i had a explodng cd, never, and i use them alot.

[@ICEMANAustralia]

4:42 It ahh, says it's heavy duty. HAHAAHAHA BEST LINE.

[@Adwaenyth]

Had one CD disintegrating in my drive about 9 years ago. Was an old disc and the drive was a 56x drive going full speed at that time. It just blew the CD apart within the drive but the shrapnel was still contained within the drive itself - which was pretty much done for though. ;)

[@GrimFilth]

56x looked like a great idea back in the day's, but this is why we can't have any nice things.

[@No_215]

10:48 "you ready baldy?" 😂

[@Wentelteefje]

"It says it's heavy duty"

[@nathanalexander1701]

Stef Hagen six years late but I fuckin love that line🤣

[@linswad]

As a computer technician in Australia, I saw a couple of machines with shattered CDs in them. I believe it to be more a result of a cracked CD than a super-high speed drive, as these were fifteen or more years ago.

[@andyjay9346]

Great how Adam laughs hysterically. It's as good as two laffs and makes up for Jamie's deadpan reaction. Good one.

[@napillnik]

This happened to me. Yes, a 52x CD-RW drive, I once put a disk in, and as it copied stuff, I heard a very loud bang, like VERY loud. I crapped my pants, turned everything off, thought I'm done with the drive, but consulted with friends and decided to take it apart. There were lots of pieces as small as grains of sand, as well as bigger pieces, the largest being the size of about 1/6 of the disk. The materials inside the CD-RW drive were damaged, particularly the plastics and soft cushions and that sort of stuff. Some pieces of metal were slightly bent. I cleaned everything I could, but still would hear small pieces in some parts I couldn't disassemble. But it worked afterwards.

[@potatosmasher8612]

same here.

[@The-Zer0th-Law]

bad luck, aren't ya? I once had a CD that was already bad for high speeds, but was recorded in a high speed... It didn't really explode, it just went "pop!" and was cleanly split in two.

[@napillnik]

***** lucky :) I was poor back then. Couldn't afford another CD-RW drive, so that event scared me pretty much.

[@The-Zer0th-Law]

Donnie So, yeah, bad luck at first, good luck after then.

[@AstralJaeger]

thats why I'm using 32x drives

[@mr2000jp]

its not the computer not fast enough to handle the full speed , its a mechanism in the drive the drive the speed higher and lower till it reaches the optimum reading speed , which almost impossible to get to the point of 52X because of many things , the quality of the cd material , and how clean is the cd and the air and and heat might reduce the ability to be read fast and many more reasons , if you noticed what the manufacturers write on those drives in small letters , 25X max , which means 52 will be the maximum speed (that is never reached) maximum speed i saw in my career lifetime was around 40X

[@aretard7995]

I think it runs at max speed when you hold the eject button.

[@jeffhrose]

Soon after starting work at The Bournemouth & Poole College I inserted a CD into one of the drives in a computer room. Everything was fine for a while, then the drive accessed some information on the CD and bang, the CD shattered showering me with debris, blowing off the drive door.

[@roberthansson8222]

A few years ago I had a Diablo 2 cd explode in my computer, started to sound like a turbine engine from a boeing 747 and then it was a big ''poff''. Unknowingly I had unleashed the prime evils on earth, lord of terror, lord of hate and lord of destruction. Pissed at being contained into a crowded cd for several years being humiliated by keyboard warriors who continuously defeated them, they then and there swore to bring hell on earth. That is why earth is in its present turmoil, so sorry! God bless!

[@Tennouseijin]

+Robert Hansson Did you feel a need to embed a shard of the CD in your forehead afterwards?

[@Boom12]

FOOL! You have just ensured doom on this world. Go to the Temple of Light, in the Krispy Kreme near Chinatown...

[@IfhesK]

Something similar happened to me, but with a disk of Spanish pagan rock music.

[@carvis3290]

Well it's been a few years, and things have gotten worse. This comment is relevant even now, unlike CDs...... :D

[@skylertooley]

@@carvis3290 I think this is Mephisto personally

[@marc-andreservant201]

What does the future hold? Netflix, Spotify and iTunes music. We have all of that in pocket computers called smartphones that have zero moving parts. Disks are nearly extinct.

[@NivekRezjiek]

7:36 Mythbusters being such troll Scaring people for the Dentist!

[@j800r]

You'd be surprised. People still buy vinyl and SOME people still buy/use casette even. mp3 is just not the same quality as a CD. Granted, the human ear could barely tell the difference but CDs are still marketable. Plus there are people who still buy optical media (myself included). A pack of 50 DVD-Rs is around £10 max whereas a 500GB external hard drive is closer to £50.

[@Corristo89]

Happened to a co-worker of mine at the computer shop we both worked at. For some reason a Windows 7 DVD exploded on him in the shop. A few fragments flew out, most remained in the drive. We had no idea why it happened. The disc was new and so was the drive. I guess it was a freak accident, like being hit by a crashing satellite. If those high speed fragments hit the eyes, then I could imagine that the result would be horrible. But would they penetrate clothing or break the skin? I mean no one stands in front of an open drive naked.

[@sciencoking]

The fragments are pretty light and not very aerodynamic. They would slow down pretty fast and not have high range, but if you were standing right in front of the drive, I can imagine some of them sticking to your skin, even through clothes. Then again, don't forget the lid would still be in the way unlike in the experiment, so it wouldn't be nearly as bad. Luckily all of this is becoming less of a problem now thanks to flash drives and online storage.

[@ArtisChronicles]

+Dennis W I've still never experienced this at all. I still prefer having an optical drive as an option for installing media.

[@Kinetic79au]

Genius-busters: 52x CDRom drives don't spin anywhere near 30,000 rpm. 52x is your reading DATA speed, not your rpm multiplier. A 52x drive spins at around 11,200 rpm depending on where it's reading on the disc. The rpm multiplier stopped at 16x drives. Mind you, you could still tear apart a damaged or warped CD even at 11,200 rpm.

[@disgustibuss]

"What the future could be" I'm thinking about it in NVME

[@adammullarkey4996]

I love how they spend ages trying to find a tool that can spin a CD up to a high enough speed, and then the slow-mo guys did it with the motor from an ordinary vacuum cleaner.

[@arzigogolato1]

1:15 you can see Jamie smiling!

[@DispairNL]

Best show on Discovery i watched all the time .

[@lecheez6039]

I remember when i was a kid that happened to me . The CD exploded inside the CD reader but did not eject from it.

[@yeesnaw]

I don't know how old this is but that guy predicting the future of cd drives was spot on.

[@TomGibson.]

meanwhile slomo guys did this in a back garden with next to no protection and a motor from a vacuum cleaner

[@markrobinson3736]

Loved watching mythbusters shame it had to end also R.I.P. grant imahara

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

TEAC 52X used to do that. I remember on nero that the max speed was reached in 5% of the burning while others went at the end 48X. Demonic drive indeed.

[@keresheres4545]

OMG im burning TEAC 52X CDs for my old PS1, im glad my friends told me to burn at 4X speed

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

It wont break but sometimes when i opened the tray it was spinning over my head. My tower was very tall on the workbench.

[@chillenchilla4]

עמרי זילכה ps1 games must be burned at 4x speed because of the age of the cd rom in the that unit because at that time 52x didn't exist

[@ClySuva]

CD drive instantly spins down when it detects wobble in CD because it can't read it anymore. That's one of the reasons they might not been able to max it out. Crashes can happen with faulty drives/drivers and software, or some certain structural damage in CD.

[@mymom1234]

I actually had one cd explode in my cd drive 10 years ago on a hot day. But that doesn't matter today, the last two PCs I build didn't even have an optical drive.

[@lolman123401]

And you always get dat one time when you need one...

[@mymom1234]

***** There are USB Drives to rent if you really need one. Never happened to me though.

[@colbyfalk2013]

mymom1234 or you could buy one for $20...

[@bowmanruto]

Colby Falk 5 if its cd

[@lolman123401]

Matthew H pretty much every ethernet driver is included nowadays, and if it's not, you usually know, and you save the driver on a USB drive or something

[@jazz3244]

I love how in the beginning they don't quite have their footing in presenting but at the end they are just talking about the science and they have all the confidence in the world

[@TheNathanNS]

My GTA San Andreas dis did once. Luckily, I had a No CD Crack. :D And the next day I re-bought it.

[@blitzgordon3515]

Yeah sure you did Long John, sure you did.. ;)

[@TheNathanNS]

@@blitzgordon3515 I got it on Steam

[@omnom8378]

„Aww shit here we go again“

[@Ser_Salty]

You also had a CD Crack!

[@NicolaiSyvertsen]

the tolerances in a HDD is a lot stricter than for a plastic disc which a CD-ROM is. The reason these shatter is because they are not perfectly centered so there is slight eccentricity and they also wobble due to wind turbulence (drag).

[@subject1105]

00:37 ya boi Jerry chilling in the back

[@Intrepid_Explorer]

11:37 "Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day." My new favorite Mythbusters quote.

[@JonnesTT]

"packing more bits onto the disc" Well... Or we'll just replace that cd in the first place.

[@nejcgjurameke3037]

What is CD?

[@AdamRangiaho]

what's a cd?

[@ruach12355]

a round circle that has data on it.

[@AdamRangiaho]

***** how quaint :D

[@3mar00ss6]

hello we are in 2018 now did you find the answer?

[@dddonuthead]

CDs nuts

[@mancheetah5610]

It’s like a fancy vinyl

[@Aguijon1982]

This shit happen to me with an Iron Maiden CD!! Broke like glass

[@JackReacheround]

110 $ for a CRT monitor ? and 115 for that tower ?! what !? .. lol this is an old episode

[@stensoft]

+TippMannMan142 That are some old computers

[@SargeRho]

+Falc1NL From 2003.

[@Corristo89]

+TippMannMan142 It's from late 2003, so CRT monitors and old IDE drives were still common back then. TFT monitors were available, but crazy expensive. And the computer cases... ah, that tasteless office-grey. This was before people realized that computers and monitors could be aesthetically pleasing xD

[@JackReacheround]

+Corristo89 Yeah, i know.

[@sherpajones]

+TippMannMan142 The only use of a CRT these days is at the target range.

[@TheLastPhoen1x]

20 years in the future robots will look at this video and start war with humanity

[@hamishhamilton7089]

The slow mo guys did this with a vacuum motor, it looked amazing

[@Caldera01]

Absolutely! Only problem is that safe's tend to be irregularily shaped which makes them extremely unbalanced. This factor combined with their mass makes it practically impossible. Nope, practically impossible, not in theory. Just find enough robust machinery that can handle such imbalance and find enough power to operate such monstrosity, you can explode anything open with it.

[@PicturesqueGames]

Happened with my drive back in 2005. remember - old CD's could've been an old chineese grade with really shitty quality of plastic

[@naumanjaved5927]

+Smoke Fumus Funny you say that... when time has proven that manufacturing which was done locally has been steadily moved INTO china not out of china...

[@PicturesqueGames]

Nauman Javed chineese still were manufacturing cheap tat back in 90s. that included garbage quality CDs

[@indiaglowing]

I've got an old pentium 3 computer sitting in my house like a relic (still runs windows 98) with a floppy drive which doesn't work anymore and 3 floppy disks İt makes me really happy to see them. And a Pentium core 2 duo with a CD drive and many many old CDs in those old fabric CD albums. Stuff brings me nostalgia and a strange breeze of emotional bliss that 2 TB solid state isn't able to.

[@johnkats14]

do you even SSD

[@Ward1706]

Be fair, this was the early 2000s.

[@yaboymaverick7619]

Me: hmm I’ll watch KZbin while eating dinner today KZbin recommended: exploding CD

[@mr_dauz9639]

2019,kids nowdays don't even know what that is

[@oishidaifuku9745]

Im a kid we still use those

[@larnregis]

I once had a slow 4x CD-Drive and had to get the CD out of it. So i was pressing the Eject button but the CD-Drive wasn't stopping the CD before ejecting it. The result was that the still fast spinning CD flew through the whole room like an UFO. It flew almost 5 meters before bouncing off the wall on the opposite side of the room. That was cool.

[@doctorletsplay]

my cd exploded in my drive.

[@psdmaniac]

My also. This was "backup version" of Windows Me. It dameged cd Rom drive

[@cyberslick18]

Holy shit. Bleem. You just earned yourself some SERIOUS gaming cred.

[@asfbi]

"it says its heavy duty" hahaha

[@Sonicgott]

"Any day we create that much shrapnel is a good day." Well said, Jaime. Well said.

[@OGJessie]

2019:what is a CD??

[@emu071981]

I got my first CD drive around 25 years ago and my first burner probably 2-3 years after that. With hundreds or even thousands of CDs and DVDs, I have only ever had one single CD disintegrate in my computer and that was a driver CD that got damaged in shipping during the lithium scare about 5-6 years ago - the package was supposed to go air mail but got diverted to sea shipping and took nearly 6 months to arrive. The exploding CD did zero damage to the drive and all I had to do was to disassemble the drive to remove the fragments.

[@R0o0man]

The narrator sounds AWFULLY similar to the Stanley Parable one...

[@markky3050]

The Stanley parable narrator is British, they sound nothing alike.

[@WereDictionary]

If Jamie ever goes to war, we're all doomed.

[@EnjoyCocaColaLight]

I had CDs blowing up that were not damaged by sunlight, something acidic or similar. It's about the way CDs were crafted in the 90s and the drives that ran them in the 2000s.

[@ForgyxFox]

@Davy Geeroms what mythbusters season & episode is this from ???

[@Tuck-Shop]

I used to have a 52x drive with a turbo button. I was warned against using it on CD-R s as they would break. And they did. Every time. Commercial CDs didn't.

[@TinchoXII]

I had one of these actually shatter on my x52 CD Drive once, the drive itself was faulty as it was not properly reading CDs, in fact, it was so faulty it wouldn't stop slowly but would take seconds to slow down, we knew something was wrong but we decided to ignore it, then we put a CD, tried to do a speed-test to determine what was wrong with and BANG, the CD exploded, it blew up the front case's plastic gate and it hit my father in the hand! It didn't hurt him but we were both shocked. Good old times. Note: The CD-DRIVE rated x56 read speeds max. - It was faster than x52 so yeah it was bound to happen, and it was CD, not DVD so it was old technology.

[@dvtofk9908]

There is alot of vibration in an angle grinder or power tool, because they are built tougher and more rugged, electronic motors are more refined and can spin at higher rpm and be smoother, not produce high amount of vibration, which will not shatter the cd, same with the dental drill, it's a more refined smoother motor 60,000 rpm, it is the excessive vibrations causing the cd to shatter...

[@Shirokroete]

Holy shit CD Roms That takes me back

[@unknow11712]

why i'm here , listening to ppl saying that the tecnology for cd will improve ?

[@awesomefacepalm]

Good thing we have BluRay Discs now. They run at relatively low speeds

[@annurissimo1082]

Well well well...

[@Stormwatch153]

Woooow! A 10 years old episode.....TIME MOVES SOOOOOOOOOO QUICKLY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GlennDavey]

Wow, an 8 year old comment, time moves even faster now

[@ettit6283]

10 years later, CD drive is a legend. Nothing has to spin anymore. SSD drives are standard. When i was a kid, my C64 had 64 KB of RAM memory. Few years later, i had Amiga 500 with 500 KB RAM Memory extencion (1 MB), and it was just top of the top. Today, terabytes are becoming something natural. Isn't technology progress simply mind blowing?

[@NaudVanDalen]

SSDs are modern alternatives to hard drives. Blu-Ray drives are modern alternatives for CD drives.

[@SoftwareAlchemist]

I miss those old sound effects. So much better than now.

[@weeardguy]

Yes, it also happened to my brother once. I think that just one out of many CD's is inferior quality and just can't take the forces of spinning at high speed) His CD ended with a loud bang and pieces flying out of the drive. He could not use the drive anymore as there were pieces in the mechanical parts which prevented it from opening. It only happened after prolonged use and certainly not at first use ;)

[@Jackcabbit]

In case you missed the part around 1:25 where he explains where they went, they went to a computer recycling business. When at a recycler, one tends to find old stuff.

[@TheAb0mination]

Damn! This is a piece of history.

[@Chobittsu]

Can confirm this myself, lost my ol' CD of X-Wing Special Edition this way, broke into about 5 large pieces and I had to replace the whole disk drive

[@lightningstrike6684]

"What does the future hold?" USB Sticks

[@mrghostmanghost5595]

no, online downloads and streams...

[@romellerodrigueza6695]

It happened to me way back in the early 2000s, luckily no one got hurt.

[@Gigidag77]

Gigidag77 This happened to me after trying to get a driver CD to read that had a complete crack down the outside to the inside. The drive spun up faster and faster (much higher than it should have). There was a bang and pieces of CD & the drives plastic covers were spread throughout the room. the drive wouldn't work anymore since it couldn't fully close with cd pieces stuck in the mechanism.

[@SianaGearz]

Careful there, the x-speeds are defined in different terms for CD, DVD and BluRay. 10 000 RPM are about 50x for CD, 16x for DVD and 12x for BluRay.

[@SianaGearz]

You are right, it's easy to have USB drive hardware contain both data disk and a crypto dongle which would make it easy for software to check its authenticity, plus each sample can be unique. Speed is also good enough, in fact even USB2 would be. However, this is unlikely to happen, because even in distant future, there is no way a complex electronic device which needs a multitude of manufacturing steps can rival a simple pressed piece of plastic in cost.

[@originalenitruz1265]

Happened to me also using a 52x drive. I was going to play Worms Armageddon and it exploded with a loud band with plastic shards raining all over my room.

[@simonh9987]

i actually had a subscription to the computer magazine that said swedish journalist did this article in. ten year old me was pretty stoked when i realised that

[@BassCossack1]

this is confirmed. i had a (very) old xp sp2 installer that was pulverized inside a new dvd-ram drive.

[@Mrnolf88]

Now, I hope Mythbusters get read this. The reason for any CD to more easily explode in for instance Sweden, is due to Europe having a Higher Voltage in households then in USA. USA = 120 Volt while Europe = 230/240.

[@Rednecks_Parts_Supply]

The best answer for the most complicatet questions "it does say it´s heavy duty" xDxDxD

[@christopherdean1326]

I like the "potent 220 volts". In other words, exactly what comes out of the wall socket in every building in the UK......

[@puffnpluky76]

The old monitors had more expensive technology, more parts, and they were more complicated to put together at the factory.

[@macbuff81]

Now in 2020 optical media and drives are pretty much a thing of the past. The march of time in action :) I grew up with dial-up internet and my first 52x drive back when I was teen in the 90s. The fastest ever was a 72x from Kenwood which also had consistently high data throughput. Of course the 2000s hadn't yet encountered Blu-Rays which have more storage capacities by utilizing shorter wavelength blue light though the expert in the clip correctly hinted at the concept. I loved Mythbusters when it first ran in the 2000s on Discovery. I loved how they made science fun :)

[@shrykyll2459]

This is like the first time i saw Jamie smile. And it was in the exact moment Adam said to "abuse" someone ALRIGHT

[@Ty4ons]

Ultrabooks don't have CD-drives and some new cases (desktops) haven't got space for a CD drive. Windows, OSX or Linux can be installed from a USB-drive much quicker and games and apps can be downloaded. If you look inside a laptop the disk drive takes up a lot of space that could be used for battery, cooling etc.

[@bwc1976]

"Any day we create that much shrapnel, is a good day."

[@00101110o]

oh my god, they're so young. nostalgia.

[@nonsondife5858]

Another free energy proof. Get a battery to power a dc motor and which rotates a 220v alternator. Then plug a battery charger to the 220v outlet that charges the battery.

[@SuperFunkmachine]

I've see it happen once on an old well used cd, jammed the drive up with fragments, had to get a new one in the end.

[@TheUlitamateStunt]

I agree, but after giving this video a second thought, I'm wondering if there is any need to speed up CD's. Although DVD's may speed up because at current they can't handle 1080p.

[@eugkra33]

This is a faulty test. They bolted the CD down to the drive. The nut on top is helping hold it together. It's needs to be loose like in an actual drive.

[@IrfanullahJan]

I remember one shattered in my PC around 2007. At first I thought it was a fire cracker LOL.

[@casiothestrong]

I've had an experience with this. I was younger and thought I could play my Play Station games on my computer so I put a PS1 game in the computer drive, BOOM

[@ThatGuy-ou4ev]

My origional Oblivion disk exploded in my pc back in the day. it was a normal 16x drive and I cared for my games like a crazy person, never even touching the dvd with my bare hands.