Syquest SPARQ1.0

[Mad Machinist]

Dose any one have any experience with these...I have two of them and about 10 of the 1 gig removable disks. Don't look too reliable to me....It is a like a hard disk in a plastic case. I hate to store a lot of Data on them if they have have had reliability issues. I have installed one and made it functional. I welcome your comments.

[msilaski]

I bought one of these when they came out and had nothing but trouble with it. The first one was DOA. I got it replaced & that one stopped working after about three months of use. I got that one RMA'd and the third one worked OK. However, I stopped using it, because every once in a while I would try to access data off of one of the disks & the data would be completely garbled. These were stored properly & the drive never left my desk. It's no fun when you have a Gig of data that you need that is now inaccessible. I ended up going with a SCSI Jazz drive. No problems.

[MacGyver]

I would try to sell it on ebay. Since Syquest went out of business and stopped making Sparq disks, they are in high demand by people who need more disks.

[imd14u]

These things were complete garbage. It was much slower than my regular 33 HDD (when it worked). Would eject everytime I put a disk in, would delay my startup if I had a disk in. Just plain garbage. With hardware prices the way they are now, these thing aren't worth the time and money.

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[Mad Machinist]

sounds like they will be candidates for the range.......my M-14 is bored now that I play with computers. Thanks for the info/reviews.