EXABYTE ANNOUNCES THE TAPE INDUSTRY'S HIGHEST HEAD-WEAR RELIABILITY
SPECIFICATION -- 16,000 HOURS

Exabyte half-high 8mm drives provide 60 percent more head-life than DLT
drives

BOULDER, Colo., April 27, 1995 -- Exabyte Corp. (NASDAQ:EXBT) today
announced the tape industry's highest head-wear reliability specification
-- 16,000 hours -for its half-high 8mm tape drives, 60 percent greater
than that of DLT (digital linear tape) drives. This includes all EXB-8205,
EXB-8505, EXB-8205XL and EXB-8505XL 8mm drives, and follows 30 months of
in-house head-wear testing, beginning in the last quarter of 1992. The
results have also been corroborated by an independent laboratory
performing its own head-wear reliability testing on 8mm drives.

In the Exabyte lab environment, ongoing head-wear tests involved a bank of
half-high 8mm tape drives operating for more than 21 hours a day. EXATAPE
datagrade media was used, and the drives were cleaned using
Exabyte-approved cleaning methods. After two years, zero head-wear-related
failures have been reported, and the head-wear test remains in progress.

The drive with the next closest head life, the DLT 4000 half-inch tape
subsystem, offers users a head life of 10,000 hours, approximately 40
percent less than that of Exabyte's current high-end tape drives. Using
these specifications and a 10 percent duty cycle, an Exabyte half-high 8mm
drive head would outlive a DLT drive head by up to seven years.

Said Dave Riegel, Exabyte's chief operating officer, "We're extremely
pleased with the outcome of these reliability tests. The results bear out
that Exabyte's half-high 8mm drive has the best head-life specification in
the industry. They also substantiate our published MTBF rate of 160,000
hours for all half-high drives."

Backing up Exabyte's own testing, National Media Lab, a third-party test
laboratory, published the results of 8mm systems reliability tests in its
November 1994 report. The tests resulted in a-very low cumulative
head-wear rate of 0.024 micro inches per hour for all conditions when
EXATAPE cartridges were used. The report stated, "This data does not
conflict with Exabyte's current MTBF specification of 160,000 hours at a
10 percent duty cycle, which is the equivalent of 16,000 hours of tape
motion."

Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., Exabyte Corp. designs, manufactures and
markets a full range of tape storage products: 8mm, 4mm and quarter-inch
cartridge tape drives, tape libraries and recording media. The world's
largest independent manufacturer focused solely on tape products, Exabyte
ships its products through a network of original equipment manufacturers,
value-added resellers and distributors.

Exabyte Corp
1685 38th St
Boulder, CO 80301
303-442-4333, 1-800-EXABYTE,  fax 303-447-7170
Europe: 31-30-548890
Asia:   65-271-6331

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