A few years back I was doing some cleanup of old media. Checking to see what was on stuff and what I could toss. Of the hundreds of floppies, I had a file failu

A few years back I was doing some cleanup of old media. Checking to see what was on stuff and what I could toss. Of the hundreds of floppies, I had a file failure rate of about 5%. However, my CD/DVD failure rate was around 22% including factory stamped discs. Now, true, a lot of the dud floppies had been filtered out back in the day. But I was shocked at how well they had faired over the long term vs optical media.