<PAGE>
 
   As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 31, 1997

                                                  Registration No. 333-_________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                           __________________________

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                           __________________________

                            SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY, INC.
                            ------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

        DELAWARE                                            94-2793941
        --------                                            ----------
(State of incorporation)                       (IRS Employer identification No.)

                             47071 Bayside Parkway
                           Fremont, California 94538
                    (Address of principal executive offices)

                           --------------------------

                      1997 ACCRUED VACATION EXCHANGE PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)

                           --------------------------

                                Edwin L. Harper,
                     Chief Executive Officer and President
                            SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY, INC.
                             47071 Bayside Parkway
                           Fremont, California 94538
                                 (510) 226-4000
           (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

                           --------------------------

                                   Copies to:

                              M. Greg Allio, Esq.
                           Christina M. O'Brien, Esq.
                        SHARTSIS, FRIESE & GINSBURG, LLP
                         One Maritime Plaza, 18th Floor
                        San Francisco, California 94111
<PAGE>
 
                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Proposed      
    Title of           Amount to        Maximum        Proposed Maximum  
Securities To Be          be         Offering Price   Aggregate Offering      Amount of    
   Registered         Registered      Per Share (1)         Price          Registration Fee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                   <C>            <C>              <C>                  <C> 
Common Stock,            300,000         $3.16             $948,000            $287.27
 $.001 par value,
 issuable pursuant
 to 1997 Accrued
 Vacation
 Exchange Plan
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>

   (1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in
accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"), based upon the average of the high and low prices
reported in the Nasdaq National Market on January 27, 1997.

              ----------------------------------------------------

                                       2
<PAGE>
 
                                    PART II

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


ITEM 3.  INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.

   The following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, (the "Exchange Act") are hereby incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement:

   a)  The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
September 30, 1996, including the amendment thereto on Form 10K/A, and including
all documents incorporated by reference into such filing.

   b)  The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K dated October 31, 1996, as
amended, November 11, 1996, November 25, 1996, December 2, 1996, December 30,
1996 and January 23, 1997.

   c)  The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed pursuant to Section 12 of
the Exchange Act.

   All documents subsequently filed by Registrant with the SEC pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all
securities offered by this Registration Statement have been sold or that
deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part of
this Registration Statement from the respective dates of the filing of such
documents with the SEC until the information contained therein is superseded or
updated by any subsequently-filed document that is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

   Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

   Not applicable.

                                      II-1
<PAGE>
 
ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

   The Registrant has the power, pursuant to Section 102(7) of the Delaware
General Corporation Law, to limit the liability of directors of the Registrant
for certain breaches of fiduciary duty and, pursuant to Section 145 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law, to indemnify its officers and directors and
other persons for certain acts.  The Registrant's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended, includes the following provisions:

          The personal liability of the directors of the corporation for
     monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director shall be
     eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under Delaware law as the same
     exists or as may hereafter be amended.  Neither any amendment nor repeal of
     this Article, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of
     Incorporation inconsistent with this Article, shall eliminate or reduce the
     effect of this Article in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of
     action, suit or claim that, but for this Article would accrue or arise,
     prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

          The corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of officers,
     directors, employees or agents of the corporation for breach of duty to the
     corporation and its stockholders through By-law provisions or through
     agreements with such officers, directors, employees or agents, or both, in
     excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by Section 145 of the
     Delaware General Corporation Law, subject to the limits on such excess
     indemnification set forth in Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General
     Corporation Law.

     Pursuant to Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, a
corporation generally has the power to indemnify its present and former
directors, officers, employees and agents against expenses incurred by them in
connection with any suit to which they are, or are threatened to be made, a
party by reason of their serving in such positions so long as they acted in good
faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the
best interests of a corporation, and with respect to any criminal action, they
had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.

     Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court to
award, or a corporation's board of directors to grant indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the 1933 Act.

     Article VI of the Registrant's Bylaws provides that the Registrant, by
action of the Board of Directors, shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the
General Corporation Law of Delaware,

                                      II-2
<PAGE>
 
indemnify any and all persons who it shall have power to indemnify against any
and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters.

     The Registrant has entered or will enter into indemnification agreements
with each of its directors and certain executive officers which provide for
mandatory indemnification and advancement of legal expenses so long as the
individual is entitled to indemnification as determined in the manner provided
in the agreement.  The burden is on the Registrant to establish the individual
is not so entitled.

     The Registrant has purchased and maintains an insurance policy covering the
officers and directors of the Registrant with respect to certain liabilities
arising under the 1933 Act or otherwise.  The Registrant believes that these
provisions are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors
and officers.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

     4.1   1997 Accrued Vacation Exchange Plan (including election form).

     5.1   Opinion of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP.

     23.1  Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

     23.2  Consent of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP (reference is made to
           Exhibit 5.1).

     24.1  Power of Attorney of certain officers and directors (reference is
           made to page II-5).

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
the registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement.

     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the

                                      II-3
<PAGE>
 
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.

(b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
     determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the
     registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
     the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
     plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
     incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to
     be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
     and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may
     be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
     registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
     registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
     Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
     expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event
     that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
     payment by registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
     or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any
     action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
     controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
     registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
     settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
     jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
     public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and will be governed by the
     final adjudication of such issue.

                                      II-4
<PAGE>
 
                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Fremont, State of California, on January 30, 1997.

                                        SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY, INC.
 
 
 
                                        By:  /s/ Edwin L. Harper
                                           -------------------------------
                                           Edwin L. Harper,
                                           Chief Executive Officer and President


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

          KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Edwin L. Harper and Henry Montgomery,
jointly and severally, his attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of
substitution, for him in any and all capacities to sign any amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-
fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

        Signature          Title                              Date
        ---------          -----                              ----

/s/ Edwin L. Harper        Director, Chief Executive          January 30, 1997
-------------------------  Officer and President (Principal
Edwin L. Harper            Executive Officer)
 
 
/s/ Henry Montgomery       Vice President, Finance and        January 30, 1997
-------------------------  Chief Financial Officer
Henry Montgomery           (Principal Financial and
                           Accounting Officer)
 

                                      II-5
<PAGE>
 
/s/ Edward L. Marinaro     Chairman of the Board of           January 30, 1997
-------------------------  Directors, Director
Edward L. Marinaro
 

/s/ C. Richard Kramlich    Director                           January 30, 1997
-------------------------
C. Richard Kramlich
 

/s/ David I. Caplan        Director                           January 30, 1997
-------------------------
David I. Caplan
 

/s/ Joseph Baia            Director                           January 30, 1997
-------------------------
Joseph Baia

                                      II-6
<PAGE>
 
                                 EXHIBIT INDEX
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                   Sequentially
                                                                   Numbered Page
                                                                   -------------
<C>       <S>                                                      <C>
 4.1      SyQuest Technology, Inc. 1997 Accrued Vacation
          Exchange Plan (including Election Form).
 5.1      Opinion of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP.
23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors.
23.2      Consent of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP (reference
          is made to Exhibit 5.1).
24.1      Power of Attorney of certain officers and directors
          (reference is made to page II-5)

</TABLE>
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 31, 1997

                                                  Registration No. 333-_________

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                           __________________________

                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                           __________________________

                            SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY, INC.
                            ------------------------
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

        DELAWARE                                            94-2793941
        --------                                            ----------
(State of incorporation)                       (IRS Employer identification No.)

                             47071 Bayside Parkway
                           Fremont, California 94538
                    (Address of principal executive offices)

                           --------------------------

                      1997 ACCRUED VACATION EXCHANGE PLAN
                            (FULL TITLE OF THE PLAN)

                           --------------------------

                                Edwin L. Harper,
                     Chief Executive Officer and President
                            SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY, INC.
                             47071 Bayside Parkway
                           Fremont, California 94538
                                 (510) 226-4000
           (Name, address and telephone number of agent for service)

                           --------------------------

                                   Copies to:

                              M. Greg Allio, Esq.
                           Christina M. O'Brien, Esq.
                        SHARTSIS, FRIESE & GINSBURG, LLP
                         One Maritime Plaza, 18th Floor
                        San Francisco, California 94111
CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Proposed      
    Title of           Amount to        Maximum        Proposed Maximum  
Securities To Be          be         Offering Price   Aggregate Offering      Amount of    
   Registered         Registered      Per Share (1)         Price          Registration Fee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock,            300,000         $3.16             $948,000            $287.27
 $.001 par value,
 issuable pursuant
 to 1997 Accrued
 Vacation
 Exchange Plan
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in
accordance with Rules 457(c) and (h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "1933 Act"), based upon the average of the high and low prices
reported in the Nasdaq National Market on January 27, 1997.

              ----------------------------------------------------

                                       2
PART II

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

ITEM 3.  INFORMATION INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE.

   The following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the "SEC") pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, (the "Exchange Act") are hereby incorporated by reference into this
Registration Statement:

   a)  The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
September 30, 1996, including the amendment thereto on Form 10K/A, and including
all documents incorporated by reference into such filing.

   b)  The Registrant's Current Reports on Form 8-K dated October 31, 1996, as
amended, November 11, 1996, November 25, 1996, December 2, 1996, December 30,
1996 and January 23, 1997.

   c)  The description of the Registrant's Common Stock contained in the
Registrant's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed pursuant to Section 12 of
the Exchange Act.

   All documents subsequently filed by Registrant with the SEC pursuant to
Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act prior to the filing of a
post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all
securities offered by this Registration Statement have been sold or that
deregisters all such securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be a part of
this Registration Statement from the respective dates of the filing of such
documents with the SEC until the information contained therein is superseded or
updated by any subsequently-filed document that is or is deemed to be
incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

ITEM 4.  DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES.

   Not applicable.

ITEM 5.  INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL.

   Not applicable.

                                      II-1
ITEM 6.  INDEMNIFICATION OF OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS.

   The Registrant has the power, pursuant to Section 102(7) of the Delaware
General Corporation Law, to limit the liability of directors of the Registrant
for certain breaches of fiduciary duty and, pursuant to Section 145 of the
Delaware General Corporation Law, to indemnify its officers and directors and
other persons for certain acts.  The Registrant's Restated Certificate of
Incorporation, as amended, includes the following provisions:

          The personal liability of the directors of the corporation for
     monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director shall be
     eliminated to the fullest extent permissible under Delaware law as the same
     exists or as may hereafter be amended.  Neither any amendment nor repeal of
     this Article, nor the adoption of any provision of this Certificate of
     Incorporation inconsistent with this Article, shall eliminate or reduce the
     effect of this Article in respect of any matter occurring, or any cause of
     action, suit or claim that, but for this Article would accrue or arise,
     prior to such amendment, repeal or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

          The corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of officers,
     directors, employees or agents of the corporation for breach of duty to the
     corporation and its stockholders through By-law provisions or through
     agreements with such officers, directors, employees or agents, or both, in
     excess of the indemnification otherwise permitted by Section 145 of the
     Delaware General Corporation Law, subject to the limits on such excess
     indemnification set forth in Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General
     Corporation Law.

     Pursuant to Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, a
corporation generally has the power to indemnify its present and former
directors, officers, employees and agents against expenses incurred by them in
connection with any suit to which they are, or are threatened to be made, a
party by reason of their serving in such positions so long as they acted in good
faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the
best interests of a corporation, and with respect to any criminal action, they
had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful.

     Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes a court to
award, or a corporation's board of directors to grant indemnification to
directors and officers in terms sufficiently broad to permit such
indemnification under certain circumstances for liabilities (including
reimbursement for expenses incurred) arising under the 1933 Act.

     Article VI of the Registrant's Bylaws provides that the Registrant, by
action of the Board of Directors, shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the
General Corporation Law of Delaware,

                                      II-2
indemnify any and all persons who it shall have power to indemnify against any
and all of the expenses, liabilities or other matters.

     The Registrant has entered or will enter into indemnification agreements
with each of its directors and certain executive officers which provide for
mandatory indemnification and advancement of legal expenses so long as the
individual is entitled to indemnification as determined in the manner provided
in the agreement.  The burden is on the Registrant to establish the individual
is not so entitled.

     The Registrant has purchased and maintains an insurance policy covering the
officers and directors of the Registrant with respect to certain liabilities
arising under the 1933 Act or otherwise.  The Registrant believes that these
provisions are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors
and officers.

ITEM 7.  EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION CLAIMED.

     Not applicable.

ITEM 8.  EXHIBITS.

     4.1   1997 Accrued Vacation Exchange Plan (including election form).

     5.1   Opinion of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP.

     23.1  Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

     23.2  Consent of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP (reference is made to
           Exhibit 5.1).

     24.1  Power of Attorney of certain officers and directors (reference is
           made to page II-5).

ITEM 9.  UNDERTAKINGS.

(a)  The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

     (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a
post-effective amendment to this registration statement to include any material
information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
the registration statement or any material change to such information in the
registration statement.

     (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the 1933 Act,
each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the

                                      II-3
securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time
shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

     (3) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any
of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the
offering.

(b)  The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
     determining any liability under the 1933 Act, each filing of the
     registrant's annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of
     the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit
     plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is
     incorporated by reference in this registration statement shall be deemed to
     be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,
     and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the
     initial bona fide offering thereof.

(c)  Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the 1933 Act may
     be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the
     registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the
     registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
     Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
     expressed in the 1933 Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the event
     that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the
     payment by registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer
     or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any
     action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
     controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the
     registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been
     settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate
     jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against
     public policy as expressed in the 1933 Act and will be governed by the
     final adjudication of such issue.

                                      II-4
SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Fremont, State of California, on January 30, 1997.

                                        SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY, INC.
 
 
 
                                        By:  /s/ Edwin L. Harper
                                           -------------------------------
                                           Edwin L. Harper,
                                           Chief Executive Officer and President

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

          KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints Edwin L. Harper and Henry Montgomery,
jointly and severally, his attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of
substitution, for him in any and all capacities to sign any amendments to this
Registration Statement on Form S-8, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-
fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed below by the following
persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

        Signature          Title                              Date
        ---------          -----                              ----

/s/ Edwin L. Harper        Director, Chief Executive          January 30, 1997
-------------------------  Officer and President (Principal
Edwin L. Harper            Executive Officer)
 
 
/s/ Henry Montgomery       Vice President, Finance and        January 30, 1997
-------------------------  Chief Financial Officer
Henry Montgomery           (Principal Financial and
                           Accounting Officer)
 

                                      II-5
/s/ Edward L. Marinaro     Chairman of the Board of           January 30, 1997
-------------------------  Directors, Director
Edward L. Marinaro
 

/s/ C. Richard Kramlich    Director                           January 30, 1997
-------------------------
C. Richard Kramlich
 

/s/ David I. Caplan        Director                           January 30, 1997
-------------------------
David I. Caplan
 

/s/ Joseph Baia            Director                           January 30, 1997
-------------------------
Joseph Baia

                                      II-6
EXHIBIT INDEX
Sequentially
                                                                   Numbered Page
                                                                   -------------
4.1      SyQuest Technology, Inc. 1997 Accrued Vacation
          Exchange Plan (including Election Form).
 5.1      Opinion of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP.
23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, independent auditors.
23.2      Consent of Shartsis, Friese & Ginsburg, LLP (reference
          is made to Exhibit 5.1).
24.1      Power of Attorney of certain officers and directors
          (reference is made to page II-5)