{"id":770,"date":"2008-12-01T22:47:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T03:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=770"},"modified":"2008-12-02T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T16:19:48","slug":"sanyo-the-claw-cddvd-media-destroyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/sanyo-the-claw-cddvd-media-destroyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanyo “The Claw” CD\/DVD Media Destroyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not long ago John<\/a> pointed me to a sale at Woot for a device which destroys CDs or DVDs<\/a>. Having a huge stack of discs to dispose of<\/a> and costing only $4.99 (+$5 shipping) I decided to order one. Today my Sanyo “The Claw” CD\/DVD Media Destroyer arrived.<\/p>\n

Yes, that’s exactly what it says on the box, not far from the part which shows that it is Compact Disc and DVD compatible. Too bad it doesn’t do Blu-ray.<\/p>\n

After eating some dinner I set to work processing discs, and with a ~2 second cycle time per disc I was able to get through 163 discs (one after another) before The Claw stopped working, with a FreeBSD 3.2 CD stuck in the drive. Thankfully it was just a thermal shutdown, and after allowing it to rest in the garage for half an hour I was able to continue processing the discs, chewing through the remaining 70 or so in no time flat.<\/p>\n

The Claw works by pinching the media between two spiked rollers, which put a bunch of small indentations all over both sides of the disc while at the same time somewhat deforming the plastic so that the disc isn’t really flat nor round. A test audio CD made a bunch of horrible noises when placed in a top load radio, so I can only imagine what putting one of these discs in a normal reader would do.<\/p>\n

Here is a detailed image of what The Claw did to a NT 5.0 beta CD<\/a> and here’s similar damage to a CD-R, including delamination of the foil<\/a>. Here is a 600dpi scan of a processed CD-R showing the typical damage pattern.<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that I’m done processing that giant stack of discs<\/a> I’m not sure what to do with it. I could relabel it as a DVD cleaner and drop it off a the Salvation Army, but that’d just be mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not long ago John pointed me to a sale at Woot for a device which destroys CDs or DVDs. Having a huge stack of discs…<\/p>\n

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