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SyQuest Unveils Massive 4.7 Gigabyte Removable Cartridge Hard Drive
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11/10/97
Business Wire
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FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1997--
Quest Product More than Triples Capacity of Current High
Performance Systems; Offers Flexible Solution for Audio/Video
Pros, IT Managers
Driving forward the standard for the amount of digital information that can be housed on a single removable hard disk cartridge, SyQuest Technology (NASDAQ:SYQT) today took the wraps off its eagerly awaited high-performance platform, unveiling the Quest(TM) product, a 4.7 gigabyte system that combines the speed and throughput of today's specialty audio/video drives and other high-end fixed hard disk systems with the flexibility of removable storage.
The 4.7 gigabyte Quest product is the highest capacity, high performance removable storage solution ever, offering users more than three times the capacity of any removable hard disk cartridge. The flagship product in SyQuest's breakthrough Rocket platform announced earlier this year, Quest is the first removable cartridge drive to integrate dual-stripe magneto-resistive (MR) recording heads, an advanced technology used in today's high performance fixed hard disk drives.
For AV or IT Professionals
The Quest drive's speed, throughput and capacity gives audio, video and multimedia production studios the first removable cartridge product able to meet the capacity and performance demands of creative professionals handling digital recording applications like DVD mastering and editing as well as information technology managers.
Quest's large 2 MB cache buffer and ultra-wide SCSI interface combine to allow full motion playback and real-time streaming video direct from the drive without dropping frames. A single 4.7 gigabyte cartridge can hold the digital equivalent of a full-length feature film, making it the first rewritable removable storage option with enough capacity for DVD mastering.
For information technology managers, Quest has been designed to handle the ever increasing storage requirements of high performance PC, jukebox or workstation applications, including backing up very large databases and network servers and storing files securely off-line or even off site. Quest also allows users to move large files quickly and easily between systems and archive successive database versions on a single high capacity cartridge.
"Before Quest, people who worked with massive amounts of data, like TV and movie producers, musicians, composers, webmasters and network managers had to choose between performance and flexibility," Gary Marks, executive vice president of marketing, SyQuest, said. "Now we're able to expand the universe for creative professionals by giving them the performance of a fixed hard drive with all the flexibility of a removable product."
With its extremely large capacity, Quest also excels in other high performance computing environments which require large amounts of on-line, active storage including CAD/CAM and scientific and engineering applications.
Because Quest uses the same rigid disks as fixed hard drives, each cartridge is capable of serving as the boot disk for an entire system, Website or server and can hold all applications and files needed to allow users to move to another system and keep working.
"In its quest to broaden the company's product base and expand into new markets, SyQuest has taken its core technology and developed the first removable product suitable for the most demanding digital applications like DVD mastering and high-end A/V and IS applications," Fara Yale, director and principal analyst, computer storage service, Dataquest, said.
Advanced Technologies
Designed for high-end storage applications, Quest integrates advanced hard disk technologies including dual-stripe MR heads, which make it possible to store data more densely on media surfaces in high capacity disk drives. Offering the highest throughput available in a removable cartridge drive, Quest offers a sustained maximum data transfer rate of 10.6 MB per second, and an average seek time of 12 milliseconds.
Quest is also the first removable cartridge hard drive to offer the ultra- wide SCSI interface. The fastest device interface in use today with PC peripherals, the enhanced 68-pin SCSI connection works in concert with Quest's two megabyte intelligent cache buffer to boost overall throughput to previously unattainable levels.
Pricing and Availability
Quest's suggested list price of $599 includes an internal drive and one 5.25 inch, 4.7 GB cartridge. Additional cartridges will be priced at $199. Quest will support all PC Windows and NT systems as well as Macintosh and UNIX computers. Quest drives and cartridges will be available in December to OEMs, followed by wider distribution through SyQuest's network of national distributors and VARs.
About SyQuest
Based in Fremont, SyQuest Technology Inc. invented the high performance cartridge category. Since 1982, the company has shipped more than 16 million cartridges that people use to expand their ideas and creations. SyQuest (SYQT) is publicly traded on the NASDAQ's National Market System. URL:http://www.syquest.com/ .
This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including competition in the marketplace for the company's products, and other risks detailed from time to time in the SEC reports filed by SyQuest including its most recent reports on Forms 8K, 10K and 10Q.
Note to Editors: SyQuest is a registered trademark and the SyQuest logo and Quest are trademarks of SyQuest Technology Inc. All other brands or trade names are the property of their respective companies.
CONTACT: SyQuest Technology Inc. Amy Reardon, 510/226-5386 or The Bohle Company Laura Kraft/Joseph Riser, 310/785-0515, ext. 220/205 josephr@bohle.com
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