Never had THAT happen before!

[dbminter]

In the entire 26 years I've been burning optical discs, I've NEVER had happen what happened last night!

 

It started earlier in the day when I inserted a BD-RE into my drive and it made a loud grinding noise trying to read it.  The drive never did anything else out of the ordinary until a few hours later.  I was reading some data from a BD-R I had just burned to verify the contents when it suddenly made an even louder grinding noise than before and stopped reading the disc.  I discovered what had happened: the BD-R had broken up into 3 separate pieces INSIDE the drive!

 

Needless to say, I replaced the drive in question with one in reserve and I've had nothing untoward since.