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SyQuest has manufactured removable cartridge hard drives since 1982. Over the years, the company has refined its technologies and processes, and now produces removable cartridge hard drives that demonstrate the quality level, reliability, performance and capacity of fixed disk drives. SyQuest offers a 5.25-inch, half-height SCSI II interface removable cartridge Winchester hard disk drive with a formatted capacity of 200MB as well as 3.5- inch removable cartridge Winchester disk drives with formatted capacities of 230, 135 and 270MB, and a very high performance double-platter, 3.5-inch drive system, SyJet 1.3GB, to be shipped in the fall.
- The EZFlyer™ 230MB, the newest addition to SyQuest's 3.5-inch EZ family, offers the highest performance at the lowest price per megabyte for computer users with data intensive applications like desktop publishing, multimedia, photography, video, audio, pre-press work and other imaging of complex computer graphics, or those who frequently download files from the Internet. EZFlyer's Winchester hard drive technology performs with an access time of 13.5 milliseconds and a maximum sustained data transfer rate of 2.4MB per second. At 230MB, the EZFlyer provides endless storage capacity with additional cartridges. It is the price/performance leader among removable cartridge hard drives priced under $500, and is the only removable cartridge hard drive in this category. EZFlyer reads, writes and formats 230MB and 135MB cartridges and is available in external SCSI and Parallel Port configurations for Macs and PCs.
- The SyJet 1.3GB: Packaged in a new user-friendly, "slim line" design is SyQuest's highest capacity, highest performance removable cartridge hard disk drive ever, the SyJet 1.3 gigabyte hard disk drive. SyJet 1.3GB reads, writes and formats to 3.5-inch, double platter, 1.3GB cartridges. SyJet provides a high performance minimum sustained transfer rate of 3MB per second and an average seek time of <12 msecs. SyJet is the only drive in its catagory that supports extreme data intensive applications such as full motion video. SyJet 1.3 is the ideal solution for video editing and storage, desktop publishing, imaging, audio, high resolution photography and multimedia. At 7¢ per megabyte, the SyJet removable cartridge hard drive offers the world's lowest cost/MB. Configurations include an internal enhanced IDE, an internal SCSI, an external SCSI, and an external parallel port. SyJet ships this fall.
- The SyQuest EZ135™: First in the SyQuest EZ family, the award-winning EZ135 ideal for the small office/home office user. Popular applications for the low-cost 3.5-inch EZ135 hard drive include easily accessible, secondary storage for high-performance Mac and PC users. The EZ135 has a 13.5 milliseconds access time, and a maximum sustained data transfer rate of 2.4MB per second. EZ135 configurations include external SCSI and Parallel Port versions.
- The SyQuest SQ5200C: First shipped in 1994, the SQ5200C raised the SyQuest standard to a new level: 200MB of hard disk capacity, 18 milliseconds average seek, 64 Kbytes buffer, and sustained transfer rates of up to 1.9 MB per second (5 MB per second burst). The SQ5200C reads and writes SyQuest 44MB, 88MB and 200MB hard disk cartridges, protecting the investment of SyQuest's customers who have purchased more than a million SQ555 and SQ5110/SQ5110C series hard disk drives and several million 44 and 88MB hard disk cartridges.
- The SyQuest SQ3270: Ideal for the laptop and desktop market, the SQ3270 is a high capacity, high performance removable cartridge hard disk drive. It is packaged in the industry standard 1-inch high 3.5-inch form factor. Each cartridge contains 270MB of formatted hard disk storage. The average seek time of 13.5 msecs matches current high performance Winchester fixed disk drives.