<s>
The	O
SparQ	B-Device
drive	I-Device
is	O
a	O
removable-disk	O
hard	B-Device
drive	I-Device
made	O
by	O
SyQuest	O
Technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
internal	O
version	O
utilized	O
an	O
IDE	B-Protocol
interface	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
external	O
version	O
used	O
a	O
parallel	B-Device
port	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
a	O
removable-disk	O
hard	B-Device
drive	I-Device
,	O
it	O
contains	O
a	O
solid	O
hard	B-Device
disk	I-Device
platter	I-Device
on	O
which	O
the	O
data	O
is	O
stored	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
When	O
the	O
SparQ	B-Device
drive	I-Device
was	O
launched	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
relatively	O
cheap	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Compared	O
to	O
the	O
Zip	B-Operating_System
drive	I-Operating_System
whose	O
100	O
MB	O
disk	O
could	O
cost	O
US$22	O
,	O
a	O
1	O
GB	O
SparQ	B-Device
disk	I-Device
could	O
cost	O
US$39	O
—	O
slightly	O
less	O
than	O
twice	O
the	O
cost	O
for	O
ten	O
times	O
the	O
storage	O
capacity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
price	O
increased	O
compared	O
to	O
when	O
the	O
drive	O
was	O
launched	O
,	O
so	O
it	O
was	O
primarily	O
for	O
businesses	O
that	O
still	O
relied	O
on	O
the	O
drive	O
and	O
people	O
who	O
wanted	O
to	O
read	O
old	O
SparQ	B-Device
disks	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
SparQ	O
had	O
a	O
serious	O
failure	O
mode	O
which	O
damaged	O
SparQ	B-Device
disks	I-Device
in	O
such	O
a	O
way	O
that	O
they	O
would	O
damage	O
subsequent	O
SparQ	B-Device
drives	I-Device
in	O
which	O
they	O
were	O
placed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Inserting	O
a	O
broken	O
disk	O
in	O
a	O
SparQ	B-Device
drive	I-Device
will	O
cause	O
the	O
drive	O
to	O
break	O
any	O
new	O
disks	O
placed	O
in	O
that	O
drive	O
.	O
</s>
