High-Density, Highly Reliable Solution Blends SAS and SATA Storage with Energy-Efficient AutoMAID Technology;

Derby, UK - 18th August, 2008 - Nexsan, a leading provider of energy-efficient, long-term storage, today announced the availability of The Edge, a next-generation green Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution configured and priced specifically for the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) market.

The Edge is a high-density disk storage solution that allows users to tier existing Nexsan SAS and SATA-based storage with file services, CIFS and NFS, as well as block service iSCSI. It also features high-reliability attributes unavailable in other SMB storage solutions.

The Edge was designed for the increasing number of SMB customers that are demanding green data storage solutions that maintain high performance with proven enterprise-class reliability. The Edge and the recently announced DATABeast are part of Nexsan's growing family of green storage solutions for companies of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises.

Highly Reliable

- Customers report component AFR* of less than 1%

- Full redundancy and failover capabilities

Green

- Offers tiered Nexsan storage and AutoMAIDenergy-efficiency as standard features in a single turnkey solution

- Incorporates next-generation Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID 2.0) functionality, which enables dramatic energy savings without compromising application performance or reliability

- Three levels of energy efficiency, user-configurable to control energy usage on disk drives rather than an on/off approach

Stores up to 84TB in 9U, more than twice the density of comparable solutions

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