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January 6, 2003
SOFTRAID, LLC TO DEMO SOFTRAID 3 FOR MAC OS X AT MACWORLD SF

Since 1994, SoftRAID has dominated the RAID software market for the Mac. SoftRAID has been widely bundled with Apple's AppleshareIP Servers and with leading SCSI solutions, including the Adaptec and Initio SCSI cards. SoftRAID has been the RAID solution recommended by Pinnacle Systems for use with their acclaimed Cinewave uncompressed video solution.

SoftRAID's high quality, robustness, and superior performance has given confidence to Mac OS 9 Server Administrators worldwide. Continuing in that tradition, SoftRAID 3 has been totally rewritten for Mac OS X and is a 100% native application. This ensures high performance, both in the SoftRAID driver and its newly designed user interface.

"Many Server Admins and Video professionals have delayed their migration to Mac OS X, waiting for a server quality RAID", said Timothy Standing, V.P. of Engineering at SoftRAID, LLC. "Now, with SoftRAID 3, those users along with small business accounting and database users, are able to move up with the assurance of high data availability and better performance."

About SoftRAID
SoftRAID 3 makes data transfers on the Mac faster and more reliable. The driver sends data to two or more drives at once, increasing bandwidth (RAID 0 - striping), and/or adding redundancy (RAID 1 - mirroring). Striping is essential for disk intensive applications such as uncompressed video capture. Mirroring increases data availability and functions as instant backup for mission critical data stored on servers and workstations.

SoftRAID 3 supports non-RAID and RAID levels 0 and 1 on any combination of FireWire, ATA, SCSI and Fibre Channel drives. Users can easily update their OS 9 SoftRAID volumes to OS X Volumes. In addition, SoftRAID offers automatic rebuilding of Mirror volumes and automatic notification of errors, all with the high reliability and performance SoftRAID users have come to expect. Advanced features such as I/O counts, disk error tracking, and conversion of standard volumes to RAID volumes make SoftRAID 3 the leader out of the gate. SoftRAID's sleek interface is multi-threaded, powerful and intuitive.

SoftRAID 3 is expected to ship approximately 30-45 days after MacWorld Expo. The suggested retail price will be $149, with upgrades at $99. SoftRAID 2.2.2 users who purchased or upgraded SoftRAID after August 1, 2002 will be entitled to a free upgrade to SoftRAID 3. (OEM bundles do not qualify for this offer.)

About SoftRAID, LLC.
SoftRAID, LLC is headquartered in Mendocino, California, and has dedicated itself to developing high quality applications for Mac OS.