Nexsan's ATABeast Earns 'Recommended' Status From Leading U.K. Publication

PC Pro gives favorable review to company's enterprise-class RAID array

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., December 9, 2004 - Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today announced that its ATABeast enterprise-class disk-based storage solution has received another positive review from a leading U.K. magazine, PC Pro, earning the coveted "Recommended" status. This latest accolade closely follows positive mentions in two other leading British publications, Storage Magazine and Techworld.

The review in the January 2005 edition of PC Pro reaches the verdict, "Beast by name and beast by nature, as Nexsan delivers one of the best fibre-channel storage densities in a highly manageable appliance. It offers impressive performance and extreme value too." Nexsan's ATABeast received an overall score of 5 out of 6 stars in the PC Pro Ratings summary, with a perfect score in the "Performance" category.

Reviewer Dave Mitchell praised the ATABeast's high performance and cost-correct pricing, while giving high marks to the solution's hot-swapability, fault tolerance and user interfaces. He summarized his review by saying that the comparatively high performance added to the "high storage density, quality management tools plus sheer value, and the ATABeast could be a real animal in the network storage market."

"Following many positive mentions, favorable reviews and awards in the United States, we are pleased that Nexsan's storage solutions are garnering similar attention in industry-leading publications from around the world," said Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing at Nexsan. "PC Pro's Recommended status of the ATABeast is another feather in the cap for everyone here at Nexsan and it further validates to our customers the outstanding performance and affordable price point of our entire line of disk-based storage solutions."

Nexsan's ATABeast is an extreme density disk array that delivers enterprise-class capabilities in a low-profile, cost-correct package built around the latest award-winning technology from Nexsan and high-capacity ATA disk drives. It is OS-independent, needing no special software drivers or server-based management applications. Each component is redundant with individual components online hot swappable. ATABeast provides the highest density per square inch - 10.5 drives per U, 4.2 TB per U (using 400 GB drives).

PC Pro is a 200+ page publication written for professional users of networks and high-end PCs, and corporate decision makers. The magazine is product-driven and includes news and new technology articles. The publication includes the Enterprise section, which includes product reviews on computers and high-end services each month. PC Pro has a circulation of more than 100,000. The publication can be found online at www.pcpro.co.uk.

About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif. has changed the way IT managers are storing and protecting corporate data. From the outset, Nexsan has moved to the forefront because it recognized the need for corporate managers to "do more with less." Nexsan was the first on the scene to deliver award-winning storage solutions that provide, for the first time, correct-cost pricing, without sacrificing features and performance, and ones that make good business sense for virtually every size company. Every Nexsan product is a total solution, with unprecedented ease of use, features, performance and reliability - all priced to fit the requirements of IT managers worldwide. For more information, please see the company's website at http://www.nexsan.com.

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