Pros: Cheap, 1 GB cartridges, Easy setup, Cheap cartridges (if you can find them), Looks sharp Cons: Company out of business
ABOUT SYQUEST:
Syquest used to be a competitor of Iomega. They offered many removable drives and media to the market which worried Iomega. Well, that's not the case any more. Syquest went out of business. Even a year ago, various...
Pros: Cheap (But Unfortunately, In Every Sense of the Word...) Cons: Uh, Well, Where Do I Start?...
I admit, I actually bought three Syquest drives, two internal Syjet 1.5GB drives and one external. Why? The first one was the internal EIDE drive and seemed like a bargain on an auction site. At that time, 1.5GB of removable storage space seemed awesome,...
Pros: Durability, low price, easy installation for the external drive. Cons: Cartridges limited to SparQ drives only.
I purchased four of the SparQ 1.0 GB drives through auctions. I found that they are primarily pre-Windows 98 but drivers are available with an easy download.
I've installed them on 486 machines with DOS, and other machines with Windows 95...
Pros: Cost/MB is astoundingly low! Cons: Xfers bring your system to its knees, company's future questionable.
Since January of last year, the future of Syquest has been a bit of an enigma. In November of 1998, they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and, of course, a lot of people were left holding rebates and warranties that would never be honored.
Pros: Really cheap drive these days, really low cost media, fast hard drive like speed, easy set up especially for win9X systems, catridges are still being made by Iomega Cons: high drive failure rate, fairly high chance of getting a failing drive out of the box, company is in Chapter 11
SparQ drives were once sold by the now bankrupt SyQuest. SyQuest has reestablished their web site and sell what little stock it has left... now you ask why do you need any more reviews on a defunct product.
Pros: Looks pretty. Cons: Doesn't do what it supposed to.
When I found out that they were selling SyQuest SparQ 1.0GB Drives like hotcakes on internet auctions, I got so excited that I bought one for myself, one for my sister and one for my father-in-law. I have also purchased additional disks. The drives ran...
I always like to browse Epinions, and I cannot believe that I saw this product. I bought my SparQ Drive about a year and a half ago due to the fact that it holds 1.0 GB instead of 100 MB like a ZIP drive. This company has promise. In fact, Iomega was...
This is the best storage device that I have ever owned. It is made by Syquest and is a SparQ. it takes 1 GB disks. That is right , now you can back up 1 GB at a time. It has some great features such as 7200 rpms and the same seek times of most hard...
Pros: hard drive speeds; removable high capacity media; extremely low prices (eBay for example) Cons: SyQuest out of business; durability of drive; annoying startup issue
This is one of those products which, deep down inside, I know I want to give at least a B+ but can't because of one or two major issues .This drive was the answer to all...
Pros: easy to install, easy to use, 1GB storage Cons: went out of business, nobody has a syquest drive
I recieved a 1GB Syquest SparQ external removeable storage drive for my birthday in March of 98. I was thrilled to get it and have a way of storing files so that when I when I had to reformat my laptop I didn't have to redownload all the files I needed....
Pros: Fast, Cheap, Reliable, Easy-to-Use Cons: Some additional legwork required for setup
When I bought this device, I faced a crisis: my only computer was my ThinkPad 365XD, and it only had a mere 810MB HD. The factory-installed crapola took up all but 260MB of that. After realizing I had been wasting time adding/removing stuff and...
Pros: Lots of storage for little money Cons: fading into the sunset
I purchased my Syquest SparQ1.0 gb drive over a year ago. At the time I was looking for a storage medium to take some pressure off my 3.2 gig hard drive. My collection of over 200 floppy discs just wasn't cutting it. Besides, if I needed a file, I had...
Pros: Enough storage space to save the hate mail you will be sending Syquest Cons: This drive sucks
I hate this thing. Not only is it slow, hard to insert a cartridge and incredibly difficult to get to work, but nobody has them. Ok it was a good idea to go with a higher amount of storage, 1 gig is a good amount for just about anything, but the access...
Pros: Easy to use, High Reliability Cons: Maker seems to have folded.
I purchased two "Sparq" drives from Egghead (see FTC vs Egghead, a dream I have). Amazingly this was one of the very few no problem deals I had. These little guys are buzzing along happily in both my Win98 and WinNT machines. The install was...
Pros: mobility, enough storage, cheap Cons: company is unstable, bad technical support
Hi, I have been using my SparQ 1Gig Removable Drive for a year, so far I like it. Why? Because it can store up to a gig., it is easy to install and use, and you can take it anywhere so you can upload and download files.
If everything goes right, all...
Pros: If it were more reliable it would be a nice zip drive Cons: Too delicate, unreliable
About two years ago, April of '98, I opted for the purchase of a SparQ 1 GB zip drive. I purchased the external parallel port model for about $200 and spent another $33 on a disk. If only I'd known then what is contained in this...
Pros: Cheaper substitute for a JAZ drive Cons: Slow transfer rate, cheap-looking cartridges
With Iomaga introducing its 1GB Jaz drive, out comes the newly rising company Syquest. The Syquest SparQ drive gives you high versatility with its 1GB removable storage. Cost only half as much as its competitors the Iomega JAZ, and its cartridges cost...
Pros: Easy setup, with a gig of space, each disk. Cons: Very fragile. Doesn't take much to ruin them.
I purcashed this product, to move mp3's from one computer to anthor. The best thing, is you can hold a gig of space on each disk. That is what attracted me to it. It is also faster than the external zip drive's. It is like a portalable hard drive. I...
Pros: ease of use Cons: higher prices for the cartridges now
I really love using my Syquest Sparq drive and $33 per gigabyte for removable storage seemed a great deal at the time of purchase. The price for other options at the time were comparable or higher. This was more easily upgraded, just buy another gigabyte...
Pros: Easy installation Cons: Eject mechanism doesn't work well, flimsy media, problems with the system reading the drive
About two years ago, I read about this
drive and I decided to get one.
I sold the Zip drive that I had at
the time and bought one of these things.
It seemed like a much better buy than
the Zip drive: they pretty much...
Pros: cheap storage, supposedly fast drive Cons: Problems with the drive, speed issues in conection to the computer(well duh, it's a parallel drive)
I bought a syquest SparQ drive when my computer had become so low on hard drive space it couln't even print anymore. It seemed like a great idea, because cartridges were so cheap, and it was supposedly a fast drive (unless I read is wrong, it was...
Pros: Large Storage Capacity, Ease Of Use Cons: None
Just got my SparQ at the beginning of this year and won it online from Egghead/Onsale Auction for $35.00 shipped to me. At first I thought it was something like a Super Disk drive, boy was I wrong. It is much more than that. Has a larger storage volume...
Pros: capacity, performance, portability, price Cons: drive life appears to be under 100 hours
Perhaps the best, least biased, review I can make on this product is to
simply relay the saga of my dismal experiences with the Sparq drive.
It was the final product put out by Syquest before their unfortunate
acquisition by Iomega....
Pros: Easy to use, inexpensive Cons: Company is out of business
This company has been bankrupt for at least a year now. If you can find this product for sale, don't buy it. I doubt that you will get any support if you have trouble. Iomega bought what was left of Syquest, so if you already own one of these drives, you...
Back when this was a new product, i was thinking... i can keep buying hard drives, or i can buy one removable media drive, and then just buy disks. I heard about the SparQ drive, read about it, and compared it against zip drives (too small) and other...
The Sparq sounds great on paper. Its almost as fast as a conventional hard drive and it has 1gig removable cartridges. The only place its great is on paper.
Originally I bought the Syquest Syjet which had a 1.5gig cartridge. Two of them were...
Yes, I know the SyQuest went out of business last year. But I still find myself using my SparQ! In fact, I bought a pair of parallel drives recently on UBid for $29 a piece. No I know what you are saying, why can't I just use my Zip drive? Or, wait...
Pros: Fast, Cool, Removable Cons: Faulty Product by design
I purchased an internal IDE SparQ about 2 years ago. I thought that this drive would answer all my storage dreams and needs. I was in removable storage heaven for about 5 Weeks. Then it spit out a disk, I put the disk back in, and it spit it out again. I...
Pros: Nice Large storage cartriges Cons: VERY unreliable
I do have the Syquest SParQ drive with 1 gig carts. When i first purchased this piece of equipment i was excited to have a Large space to free up some hard drive space. The installation was easy and neat. The 1 gig carts. offered more than enough...
Pros: none cause the break and the company is out of buisness Cons: didn't pay $300 for it
I’d have to share that computer with 3 other people. I thought that if I bought some sort of removable storage then they would be able to download things and take advantage of the luxury of living in a dorm with a T1 connection.
Pros: Great idea, Especially if you are always on the go. Cons: Poor design, always jammed up, and then some.
I purchased a Sparq drive a couple years ago when I heard about how much space they could hold, thought I was in for a good deal eh? Heh not a chance, lol. I was at first, but as time went along I noticed that the disks were getting spit out, and one...
Pros: Fast, cheap, portable, removable storage Cons: Out lived its usefulness
Yes, Syquest is out of business, Chapter 11. They still exist in some form and claim they can still fix drives. Sparq drives can still be had and the media is still readily available.
The Sparq drive is, hands down, the best of the removable...
Pros: Cheap and cheap media Cons: The drive was buggy, and overheated frequently
I brought home my new external SparQ drive with high expectations. I had read the all of the articles about the drive and it seemed like a good idea. The drive was a breeze to install and operate on my computer.
Pros: none Cons: Bad support, Company can't be found
I have changed my mind about the Sparq drive. Although it was easy for me to install and get to work, trying to get it repaired has started to get old.
I bought the Sparq because it was cheap and had much more capacity than the Zip. Now I...
Pros: fast, east to use Cons: no support, win98 drivers hard to get
So what, the company is gone... but the product lives on, and can be had on surplus auctions for about $31 each... I have used one for spooling files to write to a CDROM and have also used it for backups in and of itself, in my opinion it works well. I...
Pros: Cheap, cheap, cheap current pricing Cons: Hardware can suffer from heat exhaustion
Originally, I paid the full retail price of over $200 for the unit (w/ 1 free cartridge) and $100 for an additional 3-pack of cartridges almost 2 years ago. Two years ago $300 for 4GB of portable storage was a decent price. Despite this product's...
Pros: none whatsoever Cons: a total waste of money and time
If you want to go totally bonkers while trying to do what the manufacturer bills as an "easy task", then this is the gadget for you. It's true it is easy to install, just flip the cd on your cd rom and watch it go, but then kiss your sanity...
Pros: small, portable, removable hd Cons: slow, slow, slow
The syquest removable drive is relatively easy to setup. All you need to do is pop in the driver and plug it in to your parallel port (the actual hard-drive). The drive doesn't transfer at a very fast rate but it does get the job done. If you are...
I purchased this drive looking for a way to back up my hard drive and get some extra space. At first, it seemed like a great deal. The drive was $150 and 3 GB worth of cartridges cost $100. Now, that is fairly expensive for storage but when I bought it,...
Pros: Cheap, easy to use Cons: Could be a little faster
I bought the external version (parallelport) for this drive. Since it is on that port it is slower than Iomegas Jaz. But it is so much cheaper so it is worth it. The cartridges is one third of an JAZ-Cartridge and the same goes for the driver.
On...
Pros: unlimited storage, faster than other removable media Cons: flimsy cartridge
Ever wanted to copy some files over from one pc to another but the file won't fit on a diskette? This used to be a problem before the advent of the super high capacity removable media. The SparQ drive is one of those that allows you to store up to a...
Pros: amount of storage space, can run program from the drive Cons: unable to locate more disks
I purchased a Syquest SparQ drive over a year ago. The drive worked excellently at first. Simple installation, easy to use. I also noted that Syquest went out of business......... so no technical support for any problems. And they did arise. I had...
Pros: Large capicity, fast, removable, cheap Cons: hard to find
Well, i'm really impressed with the SparQ drive. I got mine new (still in their original box) on eBay for really cheap. Around $33 each, IIRC. I love them. Some people have reported reliability problems with them, but I haven't had any. These drives are...
Pros:CO$T Ease of Installation, Easy to use, Fast Access Times Cons: Can only use SparQ disks.
Why buy an IOMEGA Zip drive that holds 250mb and costs 3 times as much when you can get the SparQ 1.0gb drive and 10 disks for less money? That's the bottom line. This drive is very easy to install. Comes with complete instructions. All you have to...
Pros: "Unlimited" storage capacity, trusty EIDE configuration, relatively easy installation. Cons: Expensive as a drive, cartiges expensive
Esteemed Netizens,
About a year ago, I outgrew the pathetic 2.9gig drive my PC came with. The thought of adding a device to my system with "unlimited capacity" was intriguing.
I purchased an external Sparq drive on auction knowing that the company had gone into receivership. I thought it might be worth the risk considering I needed a lot more temp storage than a Zip can hold.
Pros: Cheap cartridges. Thats about it. Cons: No reliabilty, easily broken, Syquest is in trouble.
Overall when you first read the specs it sounds great. The cartridges are relativly cheap compare to those of its competitors (JAZ especially). Long term reliability is absolutly horrible. I bought this drive and it was working perfectly fine for...
Pros: great portable high capacity storage before 1999 Cons: Too fragile and perhaps too complicated for the average Joe.
I bought the Sparq for $100 to replace the EZflyer I used every day at work for 2 years (it died only because I plugged it into a scsi port in error). The Sparq is currently working fine with a Windows 2000 desktop. I never had any of the problems other people reported but then I always treated the drive like it was a crate of eggs. In 1998 I considered this drive a great product. Now with CDRW and DVDRW drives the SparQ is obsolete. I prefer using my USB 512mb pen drive.
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