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RAIDCore INTRODUCES INNOVATIVE RAID STORAGE SOLUTIONS

RAIDCore Inc, maker of enterprise-class RAID storage solutions, announced the availability of its first products, the high performance RC4000 Series RAID Controllers. Based on the fast growing Serial ATA (SATA) standard, the RC4000 Series RAID Controllers are designed to deliver high quality, enterprise-level RAID storage solutions to all levels of businesses, significantly lowering the total cost of ownership for using RAID.

RC4000 Series RAID Controllers offer many innovative, enterprise-class features, including:

• The first 8-channel low profile (2U) RAID controller that fits where others cannot
• Live, online RAID array transformation and expansion to reduce downtime for maintenance, upgrades
• Host-based processing for high performance at low cost to CPU and wallet
• Hot sparing for automatic failover after drive failure
• Mirror splitting and hiding for an easy and economical alternative to tape backups
• Distributed sparing for improved disk usage and reliability without sacrificing performance
• Easy accommodation of up to 32 drives
• Controller spanning accommodates very large storage sizes (more than two terabytes)
• Support for all popular RAID levels, including RAID1, 10, 1n, 10n, 5 and 50
• 64-bit, 133MHz PCI-X technology for the highest performance and compatibility with prior PCI versions.

Dedicated to bringing the total cost of ownership down for enterprises and enabling small and medium size businesses to finally begin using RAID, RAIDCore is offering breakthrough technology that dramatically improves RAID performance, ease-of-use and affordability.

"RAID solutions have been engineered around decade old technology, and current high-end, enterprise-level RAID has been hard to use and costly to maintain," said Tom Marmen, CEO of RAIDCore. "With the emerging Serial ATA technology, we saw an opportunity to offer the high performance and high reliability of RAID to an entirely new class of users. Our RC4000 Series RAID Controllers let server and storage VARs and resellers provide enterprise-class RAID to small and mid-sized businesses. And the significant performance benefits and low total cost of ownership make this an appealing offering to large enterprises as well."

"Through our engineering efforts, RAIDCore can offer price, performance and ease-of-use features that are revolutionary to the RAID market and years ahead of any competitive product," continued Marmen.

RAIDCore, founded in 2000, is a privately held company focused solely on RAID storage solutions built on its patent-pending Fulcrum Architecture, a full-featured software-based RAID architecture designed to bring the security and power typically associated with high-end RAID implementations to companies of all sizes. The Serial ATA-based RC4000 Series controllers utilizes the Fulcrum Architecture to deliver unsurpassed RAID reliability, performance and features to the SMB, workgroup and enterprise markets.

"Sophisticated storage management functions like on-line expansion and split mirroring have traditionally been available only on relatively high priced storage arrays built on SCSI and Fibre Channel drive technologies," said John Webster, senior analyst at Data Mobility Group of Nashua, N.H. "Fulcrum has the potential to be a game changer by offering an advanced RAID technology with high-end management functions, that also takes advantage of Serial ATA price points."

RAIDCore products are backed by six pending patents, a knowledgeable staff of RAID experts and an extensive quality assurance program that involves more than 1,200 individual tests on each product shipped. RC4000 Series RAID Controllers are generally available through select distribution and OEM partners. End users should contact their local VAR or reseller. For more information regarding where VARs/resellers can purchase RAIDCore products, please visit www.RAIDCore.com/reseller_sales.