Therefore, the recommendations regarding the storage of magnetic tape also apply to diskettes. Tapes and diskettes both benefit from low storage temperature and humidity, cleanliness, and proper care and handling. However, compared to tapes, diskettes are much more susceptible to data loss via dirt and mishandling for the following reasons. Diskettes do NOT employ this scheme. If a data bit gets lost, there is no way to reconstruct it or recover it.
Diskettes are more susceptible to dirt and mishandling than tapes.
Tapes are contained in a durable cartridge with a door that makes it difficult to touch the surface of the tape. Diskettes do not give you an indication as to when they are wearing out. You could write to a disk one day and be unable to read it on the next. On the other hand, some tape systems, such as DAT, will warn you when the media is wearing out, as indicated by excessive write errors. This gives you an opportunity to replace the old, worn out tape with a new one before files are irretrievably lost.