DISC, Inc. Announces The Next-Generation Archival Storage Systems / Modular Architecture Allows Storage Capacity To Quadruple Within Same System

MILPITAS, CA 5. 9. 2002 - (PROTEXT/ots) - DISC Inc. (Nasdaq:DCSR), a manufacturer of automated solutions for enterprisestorage, today introduced the upgradeable NSM3000U and NSM4000Uarchival storage libraries. The new upgradeable models allowcustomers to scale their storage capacity up to four timeswithin the same chassis with field upgradeable modules.

The NSM3000U and NSM4000U models are flexible and robuststorage solutions designed to address changing storagerequirements of many industries and markets, includinggovernment agencies, graphics/multimedia, financial institutionsand medical imaging. The NSM series modular design architectureallows users to customize their solution by configuring drives,media slots, removable disk packs or adding aCapacityDoubler(TM) for double sided media. NSM3000U models arefield upgradeable to a capacity of 2.54 TB, while the NSM4000Umodels can scale up to 3.76TB per system.

"DISC's modular series libraries offer a secure storagearchive that ensure data integrity with an availability ratethat allows IT managers a way to efficiently maximize storagewithout breaking the budget," stated Bob Riland, President ofDISC. "In addition, with the passage of the U.S. Health InsurancePortability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), health organizationsface new security standards that regulate how a patient's healthinformation is electronically maintained and transmitted. Thearchival capabilities of DISC's modular series libraries are aperfect fit for any organization needing to be compliant with thenew HIPAA standards."

Price and Availability

Prices start at $ 5,800 depending on configuration.

About DISC:

Established in 1986, DISC, Inc., a manufacturer of automatedlibrary solutions, delivers an extensive range of NearLinestorage solutions offering scalable, reliable, high-dataavailability network storage for mission-critical applicationswith capacities ranging from 40 GBs to more than 9 TBs of data.Headquartered in Milpitas, California, DISC, Inc. has sales andlocal customer support representation in over 40 countries. Fora complete listing, check our website at www.disc-storage.com orcontact 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 reachedat sales@disc-storage.com.

Safe Harbor

This release contains forward-looking statements that aremade pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the PrivateSecurities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements about theperformance, cost and ease of integration of our CapacityDoublerä technology, adoption of our technology by the datastorage market and our customers' ability to benefit from ourservices and technology are forward- looking statements. Thesestatements are made based on our current beliefs andexpectations. Investors are cautioned that all forward-lookingstatements involve risk and uncertainties. Actual results maydiffer materially from the results predicted. Risk factors thatcould affect our future include business conditions, economicconditions and growth in the data storage market, marketacceptance of our products, our ability to keep pace withtechnological innovation and competitive developments, ourability to respond to changes in the data storage market, ourability to raise further capital which we anticipate will berequired to finance our operations, the loss of key personnel,our history of losses, the loss of customers or distributors andincreased competition and pricing pressure. For more informationabout factors that could potentially affect our financialresults, please refer to our fillings with the Securities andExchange Commission, copies of which may be accessed through theSEC's web site at www.sec.gov. We do not undertake to update anyforward-looking statement that may be made from time to time byor on behalf of DISC.

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Contact: Suzy Andrade Company: DISC, Inc. Phone: 408-934-7000ext. 120 Email: sandrade@disc-storage.com URL: http://www.DISC-Storage.com

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