Newer floppies are unreliable. Older floppies of somewhat reputable brands are not nearly as bad as what people remember from the latter days of the floppy-era.

Newer floppies are unreliable. Older floppies of somewhat reputable brands are not nearly as bad as what people remember from the latter days of the floppy-era. They got their bad reputation from the deluge of throw-away bad quality disks and drives which hit the market around the dot.com boom.