Maxell and DriveSavers Join Forces to Protect and Restore Data

Business Wire, April 13, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

FAIR LAWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004

-Maxell Corporation of America, the technology and marketing leader in premium recordable media products, announced today it has partnered with DriveSavers Data Recovery, Inc., the worldwide leader in data recovery services.

With more critical data being stored electronically, DriveSavers data recovery services have become increasingly essential, especially when disk drives or high-end servers fail. With a success rate of over 90%, DriveSavers is recommended by Maxell as well as most drive manufacturers and computer makers worldwide. DriveSavers processes hundreds of data recovery requests per day and returns recovered data to its customers on Maxell branded media -- a popular choice of DriveSavers customers.

"If you lose your data, we can save it," said Scott Gaidano, President of DriveSavers. "While hard drives are more reliable than ever, it's a fact that every drive will fail someday and the loss of critical data could be catastrophic. In partnering with Maxell, we also recognize the difference that their high quality media can make in saving and recovering data." DriveSavers takes every step to minimize future data loss and recommends using high quality, durable media from Maxell.

"No company recognizes the importance of data protection and recovery more than DriveSavers," said Peter Brinkman, Maxell's Vice President of Marketing. "The choice of Maxell media by the worldwide leader in data recovery demonstrates the strength of the Maxell brand and verifies our commitment to quality and reliability. DriveSavers' customers can be assured that the information they entrust to them and to Maxell media will be readily available. And, Maxell customers who have come to expect around-the-clock service will find the same high-quality service from DriveSavers."

DriveSavers provides its services to consumers as well as small and large businesses worldwide. Corporate customers that use DriveSavers services include American Express, Wells Fargo and General Electric.

About DriveSavers Data Recovery, Inc.

Since 1985, Novato, California-based DriveSavers has recovered data from drives that have been damaged, dropped, burnt, crushed, and drowned. The company has a success rate of over 90%, and recovers data in as little as 24 hours from all operating systems and storage media. For more information, visit www.drivesavers.com.

About Maxell

A technology and marketing leader in premium recordable media products since 1969, Maxell Corporation of America, is a full-line manufacturer of digital and analog media products for the data storage, consumer and broadcast markets. Maxell's Data Storage Group serves the needs of customers from the desktop to the data center with one of the industry's broadest lines of premium digital recording media, including DLTtape, Super DLTtape, LTO and DDS data cartridges, and is a full line supplier of recordable DVD media, including DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, as well as CD-R/RW media. Some of the largest tape and optical drive suppliers, Fortune 500 companies and broadcast professionals depend on the exceptional reliability and durability of Maxell's optical and magnetic media technology for secure storage and retrieval of information for backup and archival and digital audio, video and imaging applications. All Maxell data storage products are backed by a limited lifetime warranty and 24-hour toll-free technical support. Additional information on Maxell can be found on the company's web site: www.maxell-data.com.

DLTtape and Super DLTtape are trademarks of Quantum Corp. worldwide.

LTO is a trademark of Hewlett Packard, IBM and Seagate.

AIT is a trademark of Sony.