Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:46:51 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Joshua Tinnin" <krinklyfig@spymac.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Broder_Mizz=E9rable?= <muppetb0y@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Need help *fast* Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEENEEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200412272102.29748.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Tinnin [mailto:krinklyfig@spymac.com] > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 9:02 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; Nikolas Britton; Broder Mizzérable > Subject: Re: Need help *fast* > > > This would be consistent with my experience. I'd estimate that upwards > of 95% of the 5.25" floppies I bought in the '80s (mostly Elephant) > lasted for five years or more, most more than ten, last time I checked, > and they may still be working, though my old Apple IIe was donated to > the public school system in the mid '90s (I still miss it). Contrast > this with my experience buying 3.5" floppies over the last ten years or > so. The failure rate was as high as 20% when I was first buying those > around '95 or so, much higher than the 5.25" floppies I bought in the > past, but the better brands were about as good as I remember the old > ones. But as time went on and home CD burners became a reality then > became cheaper, 3.5" floppies got worse and worse. Even with a good > brand, something like 30-50% of my 3.5" floppies fail within a year (as > many as 10% are bad right out of the box), and 80%+ after a few years. > At least they're cheap enough to where it's not that big of a deal > financially, and if you're using a relatively modern OS then not that > much can be stored on them anymore anyway, but it's frustrating to use > a storage medium with such a high failure rate. All of this is > anecdotal, so my figures don't mean anything but to me, but I know it's > not isolated. > It's consistent with what I am observing too. Ted
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