QUANTUM UNVEILS FIRST TAPE LIBRARY PRODUCT

QUANTUM DLTSTOR OFFERS UP TO 490 GIGABYTES OF STORAGE

MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 22, 1996 -- Marking its entry into the tape library
market, Quantum Corporation (NMS: QNTM) today announced the Quantum
DLTstor tape library. With an industry leading capacity range of 210GB to
490GB (native), the Quantum DLTstor also features transfer rates ranging
from 3.75MB per second to 15MB/second (native when the library is
configured with three drives).

The Quantum DLTstor is designed for use with Quantums family of DLT tape
drives -- the Quantum DLT 7000, DLT 4000 and DLT 2000XT tape drives.
Featuring an unprecedented 1,000,000 mean cycles between failures (MCBF),
the Quantum DLTstor tape library offers an industry leading swap time of
11 seconds. Customers will also benefit from one of the smallest
footprints in the industry. The rack mount version of the product is seven
inches high allowing for several products to be stacked together. The
Quantum DLTstor can also be installed in a tower configuration.

"The Quantum DLTstor tape library offers our customers 33% greater
reliability than our nearest competitor," said Gina Bornino, vice
president and general manager of the Specialty Storage Products Group for
Quantum. "The increase in capacity, performance and reliability of this
product is a significant step forward for the industry and our
customers."

According to market research firm Dataquest, the tape library market is
showing strong growth which is expected to accelerate in the next few
years. "The Quantum DLTstor is ideally suited for the low end of the tape
library market, which is forecasted to account for much of the unit volume
growth in the near future," said Fara Yale, principal analyst, Dataquest.

The Quantum DLTstor product family is equipped with two seven- cartridge
magazines and up to three drives. The product family ranges from the
single drive unit to multidrive units across the entire DLT tape drive
family including the DLT 2000XT, the DLT 4000 and the DLT 7000 drives.

PRODUCT                           CAPACITY*     MAXIMUM TRANSFER RATE*
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 Quantum DLT 7000 tape drive        490GB        15.0MB/second
 Quantum DLT 4000 tape drive        280GB         4.5MB/second
 Quantum DLT 2000XT tape drive      210GB         3.75MB/second

* Native capacities and transfer rates. (Maximum transfer rates assume
three drives.)

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

Quantum's DLTstor single drive autoloaders are available immediately.
Multidrive library units will be available in the second quarter of 1996.
Pricing for Quantum DLTstor products start at $12,000.

ABOUT QUANTUM

Founded in 1980, Quantum Corporation designs, manufactures and markets
storage products for today's digitized world. The highest volume global
supplier of hard disk drives, Quantum is widely recognized as the
industry's quality leader. The company sells a broad range of storage
products to OEM and distribution customers worldwide. Quantums sales for
the fiscal year ending March 1995 were $3.4 billion. The company's world
wide web home page address is http://www.quantum.com.

Quantum Corporation
500 McCarthy Blvd
Milpitas, CA 95035
408-894-4000
 
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