In order of preference :
#1 : "New" DD disk
#2 : "Old" DD disk
#3 : "New" unformated HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch
#4 : "New" formated HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch
#5 : "Old" formated HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch
... but perhaps used 90's HD disk quality is better than "newer" 2010's HD disk
Technicaly, HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch goes well for me for making 400k and 800k disks for Plus and SE. I made them on a PowerMac 5180 (with Diskcopy only).
You can read on the internet that it's less reliable than real DD Disk. Perhaps.
In my opinion, as long as you keep the disk images on a safe place (CD + Cloud + PC), it's not a big deal. You can give a try on that solution. Write your disk labels with a word processor, print them on sticker paper, and save your disks labels with the disks images. I would be easyer and faster to remake your disks if something goes wrong with time.
I think you should prefer the superdrive if you have a lot of disks to copy, just to save your 800k drive (it's easyer to find working 1.4 mb superdrive than old 800k drive).
But from an historical / musealistic / aesthetical point of view ... HD disk with rubber is not very nice.
If you can, the best solution is to buy an old stock from "new" DD disk (i bought for myself a stock of very nice cream-white generic blank DD disk at cheap price). I think your 512ke deserve it.
#1 : "New" DD disk
#2 : "Old" DD disk
#3 : "New" unformated HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch
#4 : "New" formated HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch
#5 : "Old" formated HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch
... but perhaps used 90's HD disk quality is better than "newer" 2010's HD disk
Technicaly, HD disk with rubber on the right-hand notch goes well for me for making 400k and 800k disks for Plus and SE. I made them on a PowerMac 5180 (with Diskcopy only).
You can read on the internet that it's less reliable than real DD Disk. Perhaps.
In my opinion, as long as you keep the disk images on a safe place (CD + Cloud + PC), it's not a big deal. You can give a try on that solution. Write your disk labels with a word processor, print them on sticker paper, and save your disks labels with the disks images. I would be easyer and faster to remake your disks if something goes wrong with time.
I think you should prefer the superdrive if you have a lot of disks to copy, just to save your 800k drive (it's easyer to find working 1.4 mb superdrive than old 800k drive).
But from an historical / musealistic / aesthetical point of view ... HD disk with rubber is not very nice.
If you can, the best solution is to buy an old stock from "new" DD disk (i bought for myself a stock of very nice cream-white generic blank DD disk at cheap price). I think your 512ke deserve it.