![]() ![]() ![]() I've never run any life tests (formal or informal), but I wouldn't trust the disks over the long term. The manufacturers claimed that their extensive use of error correction made these things have "very good" reliability, but these are floppies, after all.Alas, CD burners came down in price right around when this technology was trying to gain traction, so there doesn't seem to be much independent data about reliability. Plus, it's just miraculous that you can successfully store 25x more data than a floppy was ever intended to hold.Īs to reliability, there were certainly many skeptics when the technology debuted. For music collections and such, it's not too bad. To make things a bit easier on the engineers, you are forced to write the whole disk at once (no modifying a piece here and there), so it's a lot like writing to a CD in "disk-at-once" mode. These drives squeeze many more tracks onto the disk by using narrower heads (much like the ones used in hard drives), and laying down a track by sensing where an adjacent one is, so that it can space the new one accordingly. ![]()
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