Distributors of:

Digital Archiving Systems

CD & DVD Duplication and Printing Equipment Recording Media

DISCover the future - The Blue Laser generation

DISC GmbH - The Company

For 15 years and with more than 20,000 systems installed world-wide, DISC is recognized as one of the leading and innovative optical storage data suppliers.

DISC customers represent a “who is who” of industry, commerce and institutions world-wide; eg

BASF, Airbus, BMW, Boeing, Sony, Walmart, Federal Reserve Bank USA, Moody's, Chase Manhattan Bank, ZDF, Lufthansa, Shell, BP, Bosch, Fiat, Deutsche Bank, Mercedes-Benz, US Navy, Bundeswehr and NASA inter alia.

Wherever revision proof data mass storage is called for, DISC can offer the most competitively priced solution.

“Made in Germany”

 

A Safe Investment for the Future

Blu-ray for Data is set to be the future high capacity archive technology with 25GB or 50GB per disc and a roadmap for 100GB and 200GB media capacities.

Blu-ray drives are read / write downward compatible with CD / DVD media

Blu-ray read / write transfer rates are 9MB/sec. presently with a roadmap for 18MB/sec and 36MB/sec

It offers inexpensive, high capacity storage

For long term storage and archiving solutions, Blu Laser offers enhanced data security at a lower cost compared to other types of storage media such as HDD and tape.

Ability to read : Over 1 Mio times
Overwriting : 10,000 times
Shelf Life : 50 years

DISC Germany are offering their extensive experience when planning and implementing the ideal solution.

We will support a new customer from the initial project concept and will act as your advisor to help you realize your requirements.

Laser technology has matured from the original low density red laser recording method to the high density blu-laser technology, vastly increasing performance and more and more capacity / disc

The durability of the media far exceeds any other media in use today.

Blu-laser Technology Benefits

The blu-laser generation of optical storage technology uses a blu-violet laser as opposed to the red lasers used for DVD. This new technology allows a data density that is 5x times higher than that of a red laser
In addition to a higher storage capacity of 25GB and 50GB / disc now, it also offers very fast read/write speeds. At 9MB/sec for writing and 11MB/sec for reading, the PDO / BD is three times as fast as DVD-RAM

Competitive Advantages

 

Existing Products

DISC Series:

45 – 690 slots

0.2 – 35 TB

NSM Series:

145 – 690 slots

0.6 – 6.5 TB

16 fixed models + customized configurations


Nomenclature:


Series: DISC7000
Model: BD-570-10 => DISC7000 with 570 slots and 10 BD drives

Drives : Blu-ray for Data (BD) : BD/ROM / BD-R / BD-RE, CD/DVD Ro/Wr compatible
Media : 120mm 25 or 50GB, in future :100 & 200GB
: Worm (BD-R) & re-writable (BD-RE)
: Media exchange time : 6 secs on average

DISC-C Series:

  • The DISC-C Series offers flexible scalable libraries from 42 to 2.256 media
    slots and up to 32 simultaneous usable drives.
  •  Another new cascade able 19'' model with 20 slots is available
  •  The new DISC-C Series libraries do support all kind of cartridged media and
    are ready for future volumetric storage media like Holography
  •  Renowned DISC flexibility and reliability
  •  Capable to run with every mix of media (e.g.UDO and MO) simultaneously
    as the picker is detecting the media and assigns them to the fitting drive.
  • Intelligent optimized robotic movements and are equipped with
    a DualPicker unit.
  • LVD, FC, NAS and SAN connectivity is available

 

DISC Blu - safe

 

This product is called the “Blu-Safe” and is based on BluRay drive technology and provides a Universal Mini-Archive system, which might be of interest to many of your customers.
With its 15 slot magazine it can store 750GB of data, or if one of your clients is in the entertainment industry 60 hours of full-HD video, 190,000 songs or 150,000 high-resolution digital photos.
Other potential customers would be a group of doctors or dental clinics or large firms of accountants who can now easily archive to Optical storage (with unrestricted access to their most valuable historical data).

Major Benefits

  • 300 million DICOM (medical) images, back-up
  • 50+ years unlimited archive security
  • Downward compatible from BD to DVD and CD
  • Minimal energy consumption – 80% less power consumption than conventional hard disc
  • Easy connectivity – USB 2.0
  • Microsoft Windows compatible

 

CeBIT 2008: Long term storage with DISC Blu safe
DISC extends its product range with a universal mini archive for everyone

The archive expert, DISC, presents at CeBIT 2008 its latest product, DISC Blu - safe. TheDISC Blu - safe is focused on small and medium sized enterprises as well as private users. " We address small enterprises such as tax counsels, craft enterprises, lawyers, doctors or graphic artists as well the home computer wizard and budding photographer", said Alexandra Gattoni Schweitzer, Head of Sales & Marketing. DISC offers a professional archive solution for the first time within the capacity range of gigabytes with the DISC Blu - safe. Inquiries from the SME and SoHo market have been rising in the past months. Reason enough for DISC to develop the new product, DISC Blu - safe: Even small data volumes, sub - Terabyte, needs to be kept secure and without risk of data loss.

DISC Blu - safe based on the latest Blu ray technology with 50GB BD media, is a mini archive with 15 media slots and a USB 2.0 interface for user friendly accessibility. The architecture of theDISC Blu - safe opens up ranges of any kind of application. The possibilities are almost infinite: whether digital photos, DICOM images, HD A/V, DMS or backup etc. The integrated Blu - ray multi recorder reads and writes all CD/DVD standard media. DISC Blu - safe is compatible with Windows and allows for simple and intuitive handling. DISC Blu - safe enables each user to keep their data secure for more than a lifetime. Integrated off - line media management guarantees additionally, even with almost unlimited off line capacity (14 million files), high data availability.

15 Slots with hierarchical memory management functionality (HSM) are available in the DISC Blu - safe. Any files left untouched over a period of time are copied automatically to a Blu ray disc. A link in the original listing will be provided. In this way backup copies can be easily generated. Without the usual discomfort of backup recovery times the data remain continuously available. A further important cost saving advantage is by using economically priced standard media for storing data volumes. The fifteenth BD slot is also available to other applications e.g. Media Player.

At 80 percent lower power consumption compared to conventional hard disk, DISC fulfils with its newest product DISC Blu - safe, the ever increasing environmental requirements of archiving solutions to a maximum. The combination of stability of Blu ray media and the well established reliability of DISC systems guarantee a unique durability. With DISC Blu - safe secure long term archiving is no longer reserved exclusively for the computing data centers.