HD floppy disks on Amiga 500

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Is it really risky to use HD floppies such as Maxell in Amiga 2000?
I had no problem before, all I need is to reformat them with Workbench.

You're talking about formatting HD disks as DD?  Yes.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Why exactly? I had no problem before :confused:

Some info in this thread that I googled up real quick:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59623

Of course there's also 938457938754 other threads on this topic on various other retro forums.

TL;DR.  Go ahead and do it if you don't care about your data, or if you're just going to be writing ADF images to the disks and throwing them away if they don't work.  My .02 cents, it's 2016, floppies suck.  If you're just playing games on your system you should look into WHDLoad, or at least get yourself a Gotek or some similar floppy-replacement solution.  Cheers!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Once the drives and disks are gone, they're gone for good.

Nah, because the save icon in every word processor, ever, will always be a picture of a floppy disk.  Even if most kids these days have never seen one.  

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheFloppyDiskMeansSaveAnd14OtherOldPeopleIconsThatDontMakeSenseAnymore.aspx