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.
These broken disks could break additional drives, breaking most of the drives in an office in short order.