DISC Increases Library Storage Capacity With Integration of New 5.2 GB Optical Disk Drives.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--June 15, 1998--DISC, Incorporated (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : DCSR DCSR Defense Supply Center Richmond (Richmond, VA) DCSR Digital Crime Scene Reconstruction DCSR Display and Control/Storage and Retrieval DCSR Deputy Chief of Staff for Recruiting ) today announced support of 5.2 GB optical drives from Sony in its optical library systems (jukeboxes). Each drive provides users with 5.2 GB of storage on 5.25-inch rewritable Refers to storage media that can be re-recorded many times. Contrast with write once. See magnetic disk, magnetic tape and rewritable optical disc. and write-once disks - twice the storage available on previous-generation drives. Up to 32 drives and as many as 1,050 disks can be accommodated in DISC's new ORION series of automated storage libraries for a total of 5.4 TB of storage. DISC's existing jukeboxes can be upgraded in the field to support the new high-capacity drives while continuing to use their existing 2.6 GB drives and media, thereby protecting customers' investments in their information storage systems. The new drives also read 650 MB optical disks in both 1,024 and 512 bytes per sector formats. Product Features When used in conjunction with 5.2 GB media, the 5.2 GB drives offer 8x read and write speeds, average access time of 25 ms and data transfer rates between 2.2 and 4.6 Mbytes/second. These drives are made for high duty cycle usage with reliability ratings of 750,000 Mean Swaps Between Failure (MSBF MSBF Mean Swaps Between Failure MSBF Michigan State Bar Foundation MSBF Melbourne School Bands Festival (Australia) MSBF Military School Band Festival MSBF Millington Savings Bank Financial Corp MSBF Mean Swap Between Failure .) DISC jukeboxes have a reliability rating of greater than 2,000,000 MSBF. The increased capacity of the 5.2 GB drives reduces the cost per gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. (GB) of optical storage and allows customers to double their storage capacity in the same space requirements. This is important to the growing market of high-capacity storage libraries. Price and Availability DISC's ORION series of storage libraries are now available with 5.2 GB (ANSI-, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. , and ECMA-standard) optical disk drives through DISC's worldwide sales channels, including OEMs, system integrators, VARs and distributors. Prices vary depending on the model and media capacity. About DISC DISC is the industry leader in high-capacity automated 5.25-inch magneto-optical and CD optical disk storage libraries. DISC manufactures products ranging in capacity from 150 to over 1,450 cartridges in several models, many of which are field upgradable to higher capacities. All models share a common architecture and modular design In the context of systems engineering, modular design — or "modularity in design" — is an approach aiming to subdivide a system into smaller parts (modules) that can be independently created and then used in different systems to drive multiple functionalities. oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. toward high-performance and reliability. DISC's libraries are sold worldwide with systems solutions by OEMs, system integrators, VARs and distributors. DISC Headquarters - (800) 944-3472 or (408) 934-7000 http://www.discjuke.com
CONTACT: DISC, Incorporated
Ron Reynolds/Suzy Andrade, 408/934-7000
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