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Mine work now for almost 40 years. And don't forget: floppy disks have mechanical attrition. The floppy disk lifetime was, as always, an estimate. My 5 1/4 dis
by _the_inflator 2y ago
Mine work now for almost 40 years. And don't forget: floppy disks have mechanical attrition.
The floppy disk lifetime was, as always, an estimate. My 5 1/4 disks for C64 seem to be the way more robust product compared with the 3 1/2 for Amiga and later PC. Maybe information density plays a role here.
CDs have the reflection layer problem, not the information loss per se. That's the main difference between disks and CDs.
- snvzz 2y agofor 3.5", DD have proven much more durable than HD. And notably HD were terrible at being used as DD, as is generally the case with Amiga floppies.
- _the_inflator 2y agoYep, I refrained from using them. Also too expensive. With the advent of Amiga hard disk I didn’t need that much disks anymore. I bought mine - 50mb! - at the World of Commodore 1991 I think.
- aidenn0 2y agoThat makes sense; my copy of Star Trek: The Rebel Universe (DD) still works, while few of my circa 1990 Sierra floppies (HD) work.