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which damaged SparQ disks in such a way that they would damage subsequent SparQ drives in which they were placed. Inserting a broken disk in a SparQ drive will cause the drive to break any new disks placed in that drive. These broken disks could break additional drives, breaking most of the drives in
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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
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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.
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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
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When the SparQ drive was launched, it was relatively cheap. Compared to the
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obligations of SyQuest were major factors behind the company's bankruptcy.
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SparQ disks. By October 2008, the website was no longer active.
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of data. As a removable-disk hard drive, it contains a solid
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