Re:Everything I know about floppy disks
by darkwater on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:48AM
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Might be because 3.5 disks outnumbered in production quantities any other kind of floppy disk, thus the average quality was lower? Massive production lowers costs, so to keep sane margins they just decreased quality?
Or is there any theory about the technology itself being less reliable?
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From what I've gathered the issue was simply that for the HD 3.5" floppies the density was actually more than the medium could take. 720KB had lower density and didn't have that problem.