25 Sep
2008
25 Sep
'08
8:33 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:08:57PM -0400, Doc Shipley wrote:
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Floppies and reliability is just a sad topic. Back when floppies were
still an integral part of the network (think Sneakernet), one brand got
its brand name expanded to "Byte Abweisende SchutzFolie" (translated:
"Byte
rejecting protective sheet") because they were _that_ bad.
Regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
Does CF as working storage even approach the
reliability of a floppy?
I can recall running 8" floppy read-write tests for many days at a
stretch.
I missed this first time around.
Of 20 or 30 CF cards I've used, only one was bad out of the box, and
I think a flaky connection killed that one.
Of the last 100-count tray of floppies I bought, at least 15 didn't
survive the first format, and another dozen or so didn't live through
the second overwrite.
That's my math and I'm sticking to it.