DVD Broke Apart In Drive?

I've never seen anything like this before.

Inserted the DVD, closed the drawer, it spun up... and then all sorts of
unfriendly noises - ending with the device totally jammed. Couldn't
even open it back up.

Disassembled the drive. Maybe 20-30 small pieces fell out, one large
piece, plus the remainder of the DVD.

Funny thing: this DVD *felt* different when I inserted it: thinner. And
the remainder of the DVD was split horizontally - like somebody took
apart an Oreo cookie.

In the past, for various reasons, I've had occasion to intentionally
break DVDs and also to cut them into pieces. My recollection is that
those discs were really quite tough... certainly nothing that would fly
apart like the problem disc did.

This was a NetFlix disc... so it might have had a lot of miles on it.

Can anybody shed some light?

 

If there is a crack or a weak spot in the disc, the fast spinning forces
can cause it to fly apart. A netflix disc that's been passed around quite
a bit could develop such a defect.

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