Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!fernwood!portal!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc From: cpc@czaeap.UUCP (Chris Cebelenski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Avg lifetime for a 3.5" floppy? Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 20:06:38 GMT Organization: Very Messy. :) Lines: 27 I have been experiencing some strange problems with some older 3.5" floppies. I have noticed that for some reason my Amiga floppies (Ie: 3.5") go bad faster than my old 5.25" C-64 floppies did. The average lifetime I have noticed for Amiga formatted 3.5" disks seem to be under 2 years! Compare this to my old C-64 floppies (which I don't use, but still have about 500 of them floating around), some of which are over 6 years old and still going strong! I realize that storage conditions and use have an affect on them, but they are kept within normal specs, and usage on most of them is low. I started noticing this when I was recycling some older disks for use as temporary HD back-up disks and Q-Back started rejecting them left and right! I tried to format a few in AmigaDOS a little later and results were pretty erratic, most developing R/W errors rather quickly. Many of these disks were High Densisty disks, but most were normal DS/DD disks. Comments? Suggestions? -- ========================================================================== Chris Cebelenski UUCP: portal.com!gdc!aminet!czaeap!cpc The Red Mage Internet: czaeap!cpc@aminet.gdc.portal.com GEnie: C.CEBELENSKI // "Amiga - The way REAL people compute" "Better dead than mellow" \X/ ========================================================================== NOTE: Due to brain dead mailers, this message can *NOT* be REPLIED to, to reach me you MUST send a NEW message. Sorry!