NEXSAN SATABEAST ROARS INTO MARKET

High-Capacity Serial ATA-Based Storage System Now Available Worldwide

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2005 -- Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that its SATABeast(TM) enterprise-class storage array, which is built around Serial ATA disk drives and is designed to deliver the highest performance and utmost cost effectiveness in a single, scalable solution ideal for data-intense storage applications such as online archiving and disk-based backup, is now available through the company's worldwide network of specialist storage VARs.

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 AutoMAID(TM) (Massive Array of Idle Disks) function allows SATABeast to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data.

"Companies that need massive storage capacity in conjunction with high availability and performance can definitely benefit from the economies of scale that the SATABeast provides," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "No other solution on the market today can combine price, performance and reliability into such an extreme density storage array the way Nexsan can."

Nexsan's SATABeast is engineered to meet necessary enterprise-class availability requirements with the inclusion of fully redundant components that are individually online hot swappable, including drives, controllers and power supplies. This advanced design provides increased ROI by eliminating the need to replace an entire multi-drive blade should a single drive fail. Each RAID controller is configured with dual high-performance 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel SFP LC host ports powering the SATABeast to sustained reads speeds of over 700 MB/s. The advanced architecture of the SATABeast features an innovative horizontal midplane design that promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points. Triple intake fans along paired with two redundant 760-watt power supplies with tachometer-monitored blowers provide maximum power and cooling. The system's Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration (ARV) design enables maximum performance and long-term reliability.

Nexsan's SATABeast is available at a suggested manufacturer's price of around $2100 per terabyte.

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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