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March 13, 1998 (TOKYO) -- SyQuest Technology KK of Japan plans to start selling a 1GB removable
hard drive for home use at the end of March.
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Both SyQuest Japan and its U.S. parent, SyQuest Technology Inc., have been selling removable hard
drives aimed at high-end graphics and multimedia users.
The market size of personal- and home-use products began to grow, which led U.S. SyQuest to
deliver SparQ, a hard drive with a 1GB capacity and pricing aimed at that market, in early 1998.
SyQuest Japan will begin marketing this product at the end of March.
There are two types of SparQ: one for external installation with one disk and a main unit to
mount the disk, and another for internal installation conforming to the enhanced integrated
device electronics (E-IDE) standard. It has an average seek time of 12 milliseconds.
More than 200,000 units have been delivered to the U.S. market, and an announcement will be soon
made to introduce personal computers with SparQ mounted as a standard device, said Greg Peel,
vice president of the company's Asia/Pacific sales.
The product will be offered at just below 40,000 yen (US$313) as a street price, said Hiroshi
Ikeda, representative director of SyQuest Japan.
U.S. SyQuest has been in the red in quarterly settlements in recent periods. Peel told BizTech
that the company obtained investment of more than US$25 billion last year. The improved financial
status is driving the company's move into new fields.
(Hi-Tech News Center)
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