Are floppy disks safe to store wallets?

[eyeknock]

I was doing some cleaning on my room and I found some floppy disks, they are around 15 years old! from the Sony brand. I don't have a floppy disk device anymore on my computer, so I used an older computer because I was curious to see if they would still work.
To my surprise, they worked and all the files were accessible.

This made me think that, you could store some Bitcoin related stuff in floppy disks too? Obviously having backups in other places too.. but floppy disks may be yet another cheap way to store files. If I put my seed key in a txt (compressed in a 7z file with a pass) and my wallet.dat file on that floppy disk, it would have lasted for 15 years. I hope that if I do this, in the next 15 years when I find the floppy disks again, I will be rich

My advidce,  use laminated paper +  some usb sticks for example, for me is the best combination possible, well obviously trezor and all those wallets are good too but always use paper, dont know why but i fell more safer by using them than any other way.

and no, i will never use floppy disks for nothing important...

[Kartikay]

This is not a safe option. There is a reason that floppy disks are on the verge of becoming obsolete. They could easily wear and must be kept with utmost care. Moreover there is always a threat of breakage associated with this delicate way of information storage.

[nydiacaskey01]

Well if you can find a floppy disk and a floppy disk writer and reader well ghen yeah its safe because not svryone have it and I dont think they will go an extra mile and have gheir own reader just for your Bitcoin Wallet. Do they still exist? I thoughtbwe can find those in museum. Lol

[Jasad]

I was doing some cleaning on my room and I found some floppy disks, they are around 15 years old! from the Sony brand. I don't have a floppy disk device anymore on my computer, so I used an older computer because I was curious to see if they would still work.
To my surprise, they worked and all the files were accessible.

This made me think that, you could store some Bitcoin related stuff in floppy disks too? Obviously having backups in other places too.. but floppy disks may be yet another cheap way to store files. If I put my seed key in a txt (compressed in a 7z file with a pass) and my wallet.dat file on that floppy disk, it would have lasted for 15 years. I hope that if I do this, in the next 15 years when I find the floppy disks again, I will be rich

i think it was good idea to store your wallet backup on floopy disk,as long you have old computer that still work properly,and you should make sure that you can keep it work good since some years,because i think old computer hard to repair if its broken.

[ajun96]

Still exist floppy disks?  anyhow even if you find it now, in a maximum of ten years will be hard to find it.

I never would save my coin in a magnetic storage.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

it is already too old dude and I think the manufacturer is not making or producing floopy disk again.
so I think store bitcoin on a floppy disk is a strange thing you know? in fact you can still save your bitcoin in a flashdrive? then why are you looking for something hard?

[DimensionZ]

I think floppy disks are a bad choice for storing Bitcoin wallets long-term. The magnetic material they are made of can degrade with time plus the data on them can become corrupted if the disks are exposed to magnetic interference. I think a laminated paper wallet will outlast a floppy disk easily. Sometimes simpler things are better 

[Juliamit]

The magnetic particles on the floppy disk will change its characteristics over long time, you will lose information.

[Bitcoinbro]

The magnetic particles on the floppy disk will change its characteristics over long time, you will lose information.

You are right about this, I think it would be nice to have a floppy disk wallet but the fact is that it will change in a long time period so that makes it a no go.

[HeroCat]

USB is better, but if you want to be safe from malware, you can store wallet in floppy. Only then you must keep also your old computer for floppy disks use too. 

[Dabs]

Paper is a good choice if you protect it the same way you would protect a floppy disk. They last hundreds or thousands of years. Just look at any old book or painting.

[Kprawn]

I am more worried about the availability of the hardware to read this media... I dealt with them before and I can still remember that there were something about the floppy disk lenses inside these

devices that did not last a long time or had to be regularly cleaned for them to work. I know we used to clean them with surgical alcohol and ear buds, when they got dirty. Will these devices or the

replacements parts {lenses} still be available in 10 or 15 years from now? Will the interface between this device and the computer still be compatible? 

[mindrust]

Floppy disks can break and become unusable just while they are sitting in a safe place. It is usually the humidity damages floppy disks. Now we live in 2016 and there are no more floppy disk readers/writers and their cap is 1.44mb which is not enough to store any shit other than a half ass mp3, you should'nt worry about it. Good day.

[sbtctalk]

Why not store the wallet into your thumbdrive, and burn a copy to CD-Rs, and keep them in a dry box?

[jacobmayes94]

Safer to do a paper wallet, or store it on punched cards than floppy disks mind ; - )
Storage mediums go out of fashion, paper does not

Still exist floppy disks?  anyhow even if you find it now, in a maximum of ten years will be hard to find it.

I never would save my coin in a magnetic storage.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Never save any coin to magnetic storage? I guess your HDD would count as magnetic.

You can still buy floppies at one of the local computer shops in my town.

[romero121]

USB is better, but if you want to be safe from malware, you can store wallet in floppy. Only then you must keep also your old computer for floppy disks use too. 

These days seeing a floppy drive in a computer itself hard, so than depending upon floppies its better to store it into a USB. Also have a back up in one more secret drive to have increased security.

[sbtctalk]

How about we store our wallet on Zip drives?

[7788bitcoin]

How about we store our wallet on Zip drives?

I have bad experience with Zip drive. They used to have the Zip 100 and Zip 250. They are NOT reliable at all. My feeling is that floopy disks are better than Zip disks in terms of reliability.

[Superbitzz]

i dont think that foppy disk is safe. floppy disk is no reliable, i can stop working any time. i think it is just like sucide. i think its not time of floppy disk. there is no concept of floppy disk. we should keep our bitcoins in a safe place.

[Herbert2020]

Why not store the wallet into your thumbdrive, and burn a copy to CD-Rs, and keep them in a dry box?

all of them are good but also all of them are not permanent and the data on them can be corrupted. even CDs won't work after a couple of years and lose their data.
you have to save your wallet in multiple places and remember to check it with 6 month to 1 year intervals and renew them if necessary.

[Wendigo]

If you own a 3d printer I think it's a good idea to try to 3d print your private keys just in case. I found a project that may be interesting to someone. It's a Bitcoin Ingot: Plastic Bitcoin Wallet with printed QR codes and everything, it looks great and I would recommend checking it out here:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:241805  I know that plastic can't withstand fire but in most extreme conditions not even hardware wallets will last either and you would need to have etched your private keys on a piece of metal at least but that would have been much more expensive I guess.