Re: Floptical disks

[guertinp@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Paul Guertin)]

In article <31bm2c$vt@meaddata.meaddata.com>,
johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
>
>Is the lifetime of a floptical disk any better or worse than that of a regular
>3.5" floppy for backup purposes?  I thought I read somewhere that floptical
>disks were not susceptible to degaussification by magnetic fields or the
>passage of time (up to about 10 years or so), but I think that was referring
>to the newer 128MB MO drives.  Is this true for my 21MB floptical?

Flopticals are magnetic devices just like floppy disks, so they're
about as reliable (maybe a little less since they are less redundant,
being denser).

Paul