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DISC, Inc. Announces New Blue Laser-Based, Ultra Density Optical (UDO) Storage - Seamlessly Mix UDO and MO Drives in Existing DISC Orion Series Libraries

MILPITAS, CA (ots)

DISC Inc. (NASDAQ: DCSR), a leading
manufacturer of automated network storage solutions, today announced
their plans to integrate Ultra Density Optical (UDO), the next
generation 5.25" professional optical storage technology, into their
existing Orion series storage libraries. In addition, DISC plans to
provide their current magneto- optical (MO) library customers with an
upgrade path that allows a mixed MO and UDO operating environment.
The blue laser technology used in the UDO drives enables
substantially greater data densities, resulting in dramatically
higher media capacity. With 3X increase (30GB versus 9.1GB per media
cartridge), customers will be able to purchase a highly cost-
effective storage medium that is used for storing vast amounts of
information, such as static content and reference data, or archival
and permanent records which require adherence to legal retention
requirements.
Multifunction UDO drives support both Write Once (WORM) and
Rewritable media using Phase Change recording technology. The
recording layer for UDO Rewritable media can be reheated by the blue
laser so that data can be erased and rewritten, while UDO Write Once
media uses an irreversible layer structure making it physically
impossible for the drive to alter the data on the recording surface
after it has been written.
"Blue laser and phase-change technologies represent major
milestones for optical storage devices. The increase in bit density
and faster data transfer rates will translate to dramatically lower
price-per-gigabyte and substantially faster time-to-data," said
Wolfgang Schlichting, Research Manager of Removable Storage at IDC.
"Blue laser-based devices, such as UDO drives, will enable storage
library manufacturers, such as DISC, to bring a whole new generation
of high-capacity, high-performance networked storage solutions to
market."
"I'm very excited to see a new generation of technology becoming
available in the optical storage marketplace," said Bob Riland,
President and CEO of DISC. "With the availability of the UDO
technology, DISC customers will have a viable roadmap beyond the
current MO technology. This advancement in technology improves the
value proposition of DISC from both a price and performance
perspective. Including UDO in our product offering also makes DISC
products more viable in some of the higher performance storage
applications."
The Orion series storage libraries with UDO technology that range
in capacities from 4.2 TB to 31.5 TB are scheduled to be available in
late fourth quarter of 2003. Upgrades to existing Orion systems will
begin in Q1 2004.
About DISC:
Established in 1986, DISC, Inc., a manufacturer of automated
networked storage solutions, delivers an extensive range of products
offering scalable, reliable, high-data availability network storage
for mission-critical applications. Headquartered in Milpitas,
California, DISC, Inc. has sales and local customer support
representation in over 40 countries. For a complete listing, check
our website at www.disc-storage.com or contact us in North America at
(800) 944-3472 or (408) 934-7000, and in Europe at 49 (0)
6721.964.430. DISC can also be reached at sales@disc- storage.com.
Safe Harbor
This release contains forward-looking statements that are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements about the performance,
cost, ease of integration, other advantages of the UDO technology,
availability and adoption of UDO technology by the data storage
market and our customers' ability to benefit from our services and
technology are forward-looking statements. These statements are made
based on our current beliefs and expectations. Investors are
cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risk and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from the results
predicted. Risk factors that could affect our future include business
conditions, economic conditions and growth in the data storage
market, market acceptance of our products, our ability to keep pace
with technological innovation and competitive developments, our
ability to respond to changes in the data storage market, our ability
to raise further capital which we anticipate will be required to
finance our operations, the loss of key personnel, our history of
losses, the loss of customers or distributors and increased
competition and pricing pressure. For more information about factors
that could potentially affect our financial results, please refer to
our fillings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of
which may be accessed through the SEC's web site at www.sec.gov. We
do not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be
made from time to time by or on behalf of DISC.

Contact:

Suzy Andrade
Company: DISC, Inc.
Phone: +1/408-934-7000 ext. 120
E-Mail: sandrade@disc-storage.com
Internet: http://www.DISC-Storage.com

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