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Originally posted by kasracer
Floppies are a horrible medium with extremely poor reliability. Floppy disk is a technology that should have died in the 1990s but people can't seem to stop using them.
They have an average life span of about 6 months and almost everything seems to affect the disk.
Magnetism, Mobile telephones, electric motors, televisions, hi-fi speakers, Temperature, Sun light, radiators, rapid temperature changes, Environmental hazards, Rain, fluff, dust, hair, and food are all proven to screw up floppy disks.
I don't agree they have poor reliability. All my boot disks are years old and still work. If you store them in shelving or cupboards in diskette boxes then there's no problem.