NEXSAN REVS UP COMPLETE SATA-BASED PRODUCT FAMILY WITH RAID-6 SUPPORT

Higher level fault-tolerance keeps pace with demand for very high capacity arrays

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., February 27, 2006 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that its full line of Serial ATA-based storage arrays now supports RAID-6, delivering an additional layer of data protection for critical enterprise storage applications.

RAID-6 is becoming an increasingly important data reliability feature for high-capacity disk arrays in customer installations and applications with extreme data availability requirements. Nexsan's full line of cost-correct SATA-based storage arrays - the SATABeastT, SATABoyT and SATABladeT - now comes standard with RAID-6 capability.

The addition of RAID-6 fault tolerance is the latest example of Nexsan's tradition of providing customers with cost-correct, highly scalable and high-availability storage solutions. The combination of SATA-II performance and the enterprise-class availability enabled by RAID-6 has the potential to reshape the enterprise storage market. Customers who have been saddled with the high cost of SCSI and Fibre Channel drives can now utilize Nexsan's SATA-based products to dramatically reduce the cost of primary storage for video streaming and other high-bandwidth applications.

"The massive capacities and application availability demands of enterprise customers are having a transitional impact on the way storage arrays are architected," said Gary Watson, CTO of Nexsan. " The concept of RAID-6 is not new, but only recently has it become possible to eliminate the inherent performance penalty of RAID-6 technology through developments such as Nexsan's advanced ASIC technology developed for use in its SATA RAID controllers. Applying RAID-6 to fast, high-capacity SATA disk arrays provides our customers with an optimal package of capacity, performance, data availability and affordability."

Nexsan's implementation of RAID-6 has been optimized for SATA disk drives, providing protection against the failure of any two drives in a RAID set. As drives grow from 500 gigabytes to one terabyte and beyond, RAID-6 also protects against the small but increasingly significant chance of encountering unrecoverable media errors during a conventional RAID-5 rebuild process. With RAID-5, such errors result in 'holes' in the data, which may result in errors at the application layer. RAID-6, in contrast, provides another layer of redundancy to plug any such holes.

Nexsan offers a full line of RAID-6 enabled SATA storage solutions to service a broad range of applications, including fixed content, reference data and disk-to-disk backup and replication for business continuity and disaster recovery. Nexsan's SATA products feature the massive scalability of the SATABeast, the ultra-performance of the SATABoy and the 1U simplicity of the SATABlade. All Nexsan RAID-6 enabled SATA storage arrays are currently available.

SATABeast
SATABeast's innovative combination of technologies delivers unsurpassed performance, reliability and cost savings for primary and near-line storage, disk-to-disk backup, secondary storage and fixed content archive applications. An extreme density design - 21 terabytes of storage capacity in just 4U of rack space - provides a compact footprint and can scale to 210 cost-correct terabytes of capacity in a single rack. The SATABeast's unique design extends individual drive life and provides significant savings year over year, while its AutoMAIDT (Massive Array of Idle Disks) function allows SATABeast to place its disk drives into an idle state to conserve energy, yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.

SATABoy
Designed to meet the challenges of the most demanding computing environments, SATABoy delivers unparalleled availability and performance in a SATA RAID device. With sustained throughput speeds of up to 370 MB/s per controller, SATABoy provides superior performance across all standard platforms and operating systems. Dual 2Gb Fibre Channel connectors on each controller enable easy and flexible implementation into a wide range of environments. SATABoy's unique combination of high performance and enormous capacity provides exceptional value that enhances all digital information storage applications, such as live on-line data, fixed content, tiered storage, broadcast/VOD and other business-critical applications.

SATABlade
SATABlade is designed for businesses that require the benefits and superior performance of a scalable SATA solution in a high density, low-profile form factor. SATABlade features individual drive independence within a unique 1U physical architecture that allows easy access to eight hot-swappable SATA drives. This advanced, extreme-density design provides superior airflow for optimal thermal operation. SATABlade supports the latest 10K SATA drives to deliver stunning performance for data-intensive primary storage requirements and can be easily optimized to meet either performance or capacity requirements - up to eight high-capacity drives in 1U.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills , Calif. , is the leader in innovative and correct-cost storage solutions. The company creates and delivers award-winning, storage-centric hardware and application-based solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. Next generation Nexsan storage products are designed for corporate, graphics, medical imaging, animation and special effects, real time/event monitored/ online/off site storage, Internet delivered content, digital film and video, financial on-line transaction data, music and voice, video security, and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's website at: http://www.nexsan.com.

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