Board:   [DoveNet] Hardware/Software Help
Subject: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run
From:    Denn
Date:    Sun Jan 18, 2026 17:11

@VIA: OUTWEST
  Re: Re: Thin Client Pc To Run
  By: Nightfox to Rob Mccart on Sun Jan 18 2026 12:52 pm

 RM>> The data density was much higher on 3.5" disks which probably makes
 RM>> them more likely to be a weaker copy more prone to fail. The 5.25
 RM>>disks were a lot bigger yet held less data so writing to them was
 RM>> slower and each bit was also more spread out making them more
 RM>> stable...

 Ni> Interesting.. I'd think it would be possible to make higher-density floppy
 Ni> disks reliable. That seems to be the case with hard drives - There are
 Ni> hard drives these days that are terabytes in capacity that are reliable.

 The floppy drives could've and should've been improved upon, I had an Iomege zip drive that could handle 250 mb disk's thatwas more reliable than the 3.5 720k DD and the 1.44 HD disks.
 I think they had 100MB, 250MB, and 750MD disks.

Denn

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