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Toast your CDs/DVDs, for real

By Moose. Original by Lionel - 03/08/2006 14:14:36 CEST - Category: CD Drives
Plextor just announced a weird product.

The Plexeraser is not another CD/DVD burner.Instead, you could call it an "overburner" that sort of burns a CD or DVD over the readable layer, so as to render it unreadable. It takes about 3 minutes to "shred" a CD or single layer DVD and twice for a dual layer media.
So it's the CD/DVD equivalent of the good old paper shredder... it's soooo Mission Impossible you know you'll want one.
No price has been announced yet and you can always wonder what the point is compared to pure and simple physical breaking of the disc of a couple seconds in a microwave oven*.
*[moose: breaking a CD in pieces or poping it in the oven is not exactly "corporate behaviour"... plus when you break a disc, pieces of it can still be readable (remember the spy geeks poring over Stasi-shredded top secret papers after the fall of the Berlin Wall), so I guess this device will find its audience in security-conscious businesses].
JCJ
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