Reliable 3.5" DSHD diskettes

[Mike Maginnis]

On 11/8/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> On 11/8/2005 at 8:14 AM Mike Maginnis wrote:
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> >Have you looked at http://www.floppydisk.com ?
>
> No, but I just did.  What does that have to do with "reliable"?  There are
> sellers on eBay selling surplus duplicator stock for less.
>
> To make it very clear--I don't care if the disk performs well on the first
> write or read.  I tend to re-use a lot of my stock over and over again and
> it seems that most new disks don't tolerate this very well.  However, older
> "brand names" disks do.
>
> Why is this?  What modern "brand names' perform well under hard use?
>
> Cheers,
> Chuck
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Sorry, I should have been more clear.  I've used them in the past -
over the several hundred floppies I've purchased from them in the past
few years, I've had a low (<10 per 100) failure rate.

- Mike