SyQuest SparQ drive
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The SparQ drive is a removable-disk
When the SparQ drive was launched, it was relatively cheap. Compared to the Zip drive whose 100 MB disk could cost US$22, a 1 GB SparQ disk could cost US$39 — slightly less than twice the cost for ten times the storage capacity.
Quality issues
A few months after the launch, users began to complain that the drives had serious quality issues, causing them to break. The damage to its public image and warranty obligations of SyQuest were major factors behind the company's bankruptcy.[1]
After its bankruptcy, SyQuest retained its rights to produce and sell the drive, which it continued to sell online directly to consumers. The price increased compared to when the drive was launched, so it was primarily for businesses that still relied on the drive and people who wanted to read old SparQ disks. By October 2008, the website was no longer active.
The SparQ had a serious
See also
- SyQuest EZ 135 Drive
- Castlewood Orb Drive
- Zip drive
- Jaz drive
- REV (disk)
- Bernoulli Box
- Ditto (drive)
- LS-120 drive
- Click of death
References
- ^ "SyQuest Bows Out". Maximum PC. February 1999 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Syquest". obsoletemedia.org. Museum of Obsolete Media.
- "REVIEWS - SyQuest SparQ drive (Internal IDE)". Geek.com. Archived from the original on 2007-03-10. Retrieved 2006-11-07.
- "Review - SyQuest SparQ 1.0 GB Drive". streettech.com. Archived from the original on November 6, 1999.