Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!usc!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!str-va!cadp16 From: cadp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Avg lifetime for a 3.5" floppy? Message-ID: <1991Feb20.090256.10232@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Date: 20 Feb 91 09:02:56 GMT References: <1991Feb08.044012.7972@disk.uucp> <883@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Feb19.163610.22812@infonode.ingr.com> Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster Lines: 35 In article <1991Feb19.163610.22812@infonode.ingr.com>, hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche) writes: > dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > >>Just to add my $.02, I use TDK disks with good success. Once I bought some >>Kodak disks, and had about 50% go south. I don't know if it was just a bad >>batch or not, but I don't really want to find out, either. > > I have had good luck with TDK disks too, and they look kool. > Kodak are trash, I have never had one last to long. I havn't had any > real problems with sony thougth. > -- The disks I buy are probably about the cheapest in Britain, coming in at about 30p each (Thats about 55c to you guys over the big pond) Normally out of roughly 100 disks I find 2 or at the most 3 disks which won't format, due to verify errors. These are of course fully gauranteed and I'm sure If I returned them they would be replaced for me. I use them mainly for P.D. software, which means they don't get a lot of heavy use, but any disks I do use heavily seem to stand up to it no problem. If I had some REALLY important data to store, I would probably go for Sony or TDK disks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Electric Monk ~~~ ~~\___/~~ | | /o o\ | | Strathclyde University | ___ | | | Computer Science \___/ | | 3rd Year /I\ | | Amiga and X-Windows a speciality /III\ | | / etc.\ | | (Well, you try drawing a monk with characters :-) | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------