8 Nov
2007
8 Nov
'07
2:54 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 8 Nov 2007 at 10:54, Grant Stockly wrote:
Chuck,
I'm really surprised to hear you say this. Common consensus, including
your own voice expressed in previous emails here, is that 25 year old 8"
floppies are very reliable, much more so than floppies made in the past
10 years. And that is for floppies that have been used and stored in
sub-optimal conditions, often.
Having NOS 30 year old floppies should be just fine, I'd think.
Now if you wanted to argue that you'd rather trust backups onto virtual
disk images as being more reliable than NOS floppies, then I would agree
with you.
How "bad" are NOS disks? Is it worth a
little under $10 for backing
up "important" stuff? The disks ARE in stock. I didn't ask about
any soft sectored disks...
I think I am fine for now. People have graciously offered to give me
disks, which I didn't expect! : )
Well, if it was important, I wouldn't back it up on NOS 8" floppies,
unless the manufacturing date was sometime in the last 10 years.
This is where you have to ask yourself if the format of the data is
more important than the data itself.