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If you have weird legacy hardware that needs floppy disks, I wouldn’t buy new media. In my experience most disks made after the mid-late 90s are unreliable and
by ndiddy 4y ago
If you have weird legacy hardware that needs floppy disks, I wouldn’t buy new media. In my experience most disks made after the mid-late 90s are unreliable and won’t last more than a couple formats before developing bad sectors. I’m not sure why this is, maybe the disk factories stopped maintaining their machinery when sales stopped growing. New old stock disks from the early-mid 90s are definitely the way to go IMO.
- soco 4y agoI can't comment about the new disks, but I'm surprised you can vouch for the 90s. They are magnetic support after all and I'd expect that to degrade rather faster than in a few decades, maybe less the plastic but more the magnetic medium...
- tonypags 4y agoI found an audio tape single from the mid 90s last week and played it on an old tape deck. Sounded great, but I may have nostalgia-bias.