To me, the worst were Zip drives. Those things would destroy disks on me constantly to the point where I finally gave up on them. I never had major problems with floppies, ironically. I have had issues with hard drives, especially in recent years. Go figure. In any case, it's made me a proponent of RAID 1 setups and regular drive clones and other means of bullet-proof backup. Scared straight and all that...
To me, the worst were Zip drives. Those things would destroy disks on me constantly to the point where I finally gave up on them. I never had major problems with floppies, ironically. I have had issues with hard drives, especially in recent years. Go figure. In any case, it's made me a proponent of RAID 1 setups and regular drive clones and other means of bullet-proof backup. Scared straight and all that...