Why does 360 scatch disks, but PS3, Wii, laptops etc... dont't????

[QUOTE="kuraimen"]Because M$ is all about low quality, ever since they exist.The_RedLion

[QUOTE="The_RedLion"][QUOTE="kuraimen"]Because M$ is all about low quality, ever since they exist.broken_ops

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One of many technical issues of 360.

Happened to my friend the other day. He tried a few things but i don't know if he fixed it yet.

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[QUOTE="elm_street_kid"] If this is so easily avoidable, then how is it even possible that it's not part of the design? HOW??!?!!!!!???? I don't get it. I want to drive up to MS right now and grab the designers and shake them and ask wtf is wrong with you.elm_street_kid

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Disc-Drive-scratched-my-disc/m-p/286308

Laptop scratching a disc.
When a system is revving it disc depending on its rpm it will put more and more force upon it in a gyroscopic affect thus making it scartched against stuff in the drive area.

While you are not following the sticker that says do not move the console, just go pour some water in your PS3 and ignore the "Don't expose the console to liquids." as stated in the user manual.

I bought a $60 game and it's not even a day old and now it doesn't work. I did not move my 360 from vertical to horizontal. It was vertical and I simply moved it to the left without tilting it at all.,.AT ALL. wtf. I mean I hardly moved the thing. It's a brand new slim model. Why is it the 360 has this problem so much more then other electronics? I saw that you can buy foam padding to stop this from happening... so why doesn't MS just have the foam as part of the design? I don't care about MS vs Sony vs Nintendo I'm just really pissed off right now. The game isn;t even a day old and now it's useless. Wasted money. There's nothing I hate more than wasted money... I hate that feeling so much. Does MS not have any standards when it comes to QA or what??? I tried the baking soda toothpaste fix on the disk as well as car wax... neither worked. I will see if I can find some shop locally that does disk repair. elm_street_kid

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Disc-Drive-scratched-my-disc/m-p/286308

Laptop scratching a disc.
When a system is revving it disc depending on its rpm it will put more and more force upon it in a gyroscopic affect thus making it scartched against stuff in the drive area.

WilliamRLBaker

Eh, did you even read your own link?

The link you posted is about a manufacturing defect with that drive. Drives aren't supposed to scratch your disc because you nudged your PC a tiny bit, or your console for that matter. If you kick it while it's reading, that's another story. But that is not what happenned to the TC.

This is MS being cheap. Quit being fanboys.

While you are not following the sticker that says do not move the console, just go pour some water in your PS3 and ignore the "Don't expose the console to liquids." as stated in the user manual.

ImprovedMind

i have 3 different 360s... 2 are the old pro models... one of them i leave wide open because i install games on one 360, load em up, then pull the disc drive apart so i can take the disc out and use it to play the same disc on 2 different 360's simultaneously (this isnt considered piracy and against the rules is it? if so i lied and i dont really do that). And even when im hot swapping discs, i have never even seen a minor abrasion... i honestly dont have a clue how people are scratching discs unless they are shaking their console around.

and if you knocked your PC tower over while you were installing a game, i think your disc would suffer similar scratches.... drives like the PS3 are less prone to scratching, but more prone to jamming... but really when a disc is spinning is just plain poor behavior to move the drive around.... whether PC or ps3.

http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Disc-Drive-scratched-my-disc/m-p/286308

Laptop scratching a disc.
When a system is revving it disc depending on its rpm it will put more and more force upon it in a gyroscopic affect thus making it scartched against stuff in the drive area.

WilliamRLBaker

It's HP. http://purplejunction.com/2009/11/20/3-year-laptop-malfunction-rates-asus-beats-out-apple/

A CE laptop PC was *designed* to be SOHO mobile. If a CE laptop failed this test, then it failed it's purpose.

I have moved, rotated and flip over my Dell Studio XPS 1645 and Sony Vaio VGN-FW45 laptops while it played a DVD-Video and resulted no-scatched disk.

While you are not following the sticker that says do not move the console, just go pour some water in your PS3 and ignore the "Don't expose the console to liquids." as stated in the user manual.

ImprovedMind

Do not set up an older 360 vertically. I had a copy of Gears scratch the same way the OP did. The disk scratchingmanaged to avoid major controversy because everyone was all over RROD. There's a small foam bumper that they can/could put in the disk drive to keep disks from moving but they never did in the older models. It doesn't seem like scratching is much of an issue with Slims, however. I got one recently and it functions much more smoothly.

I've never had problems with my 360 scratching discs...

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While you are not following the sticker that says do not move the console, just go pour some water in your PS3 and ignore the "Don't expose the console to liquids." as stated in the user manual.

cainetao11

The disc spins at 32-64X speed inside the 360 drive, the drive's lens is pretty close to the disc, and the disc does not have much space. Ergo, it is easier to scratch a 360 disc even with a simple motion.

My laptop scratched disks. :(

The 360 disk drive spins a lot faster than the PS3 and Wii though, so that would be my guess.

The quality of hardware has always been questionable on the 360. The whole thing is just quite shoddy.

I don't know why but the 360 is the only console I've ever had that scratches disks. It ate my copy of FIFA 11 and L4D2. Microsoft has some really s***** quality console. One of the many reasons I hate the 360.

Odd. I've had a Xbox 360 for over five years and yet I've never had this problem... I wonder if it's because I had the common sense to NOT MOVE IT WHEN IT'S RUNNING. :)Stevo_the_gamer