For the 18 attending STA
member companies, the interoperability results were very favorable for
vendors planning to introduce their system products in the next few
months (see below for a list of attending STA members). If
qualifications go smoothly and SAS -based storage systems are delivered
as planned, SAS will become the largest volume multi-user HDD
interface during 2007."
The plugfest just completed was the first of two planned for 2005
to provide interoperability testing of all SAS components, subsystems
and systems before they are purchased and deployed in users' data
centers.

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SAN FRANCISCO----The SCSI Trade
Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to
support and promote SCSI technology, announced today that the first
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) plugfest of 2005, held April 25-29 at the
UNH-IOL test lab, exceeded all expectations ."
"SAS market growth will depend on the commitment and ongoing
support of major OEMs," said John Monroe, a research vice president at
Gartner.

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The Adaptec 2130S and 2230S are
available immediately and priced at an MSRP of $495.7274.
The recent plugfest saw the largest SAS "system builds" to date .com.

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Featuring Ultra320 SCSI with data transfer rates up to 320 MByte/sec, the
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2130S and 2230S controllers support either one or two
internal SCSI connectors to provide a fault tolerant operating system and
data storage solution.serialstoragewire.

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Demonstrating a
functioning system with a mixture of SAS and SATA drives, coupled with
expanders and host bus adapters from several suppliers, was a notable
milestone in readying SAS systems for market introduction throughout
the balance of this year.

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00 (U. Adaptec is an S&P
Small Cap 600 Index member. STA promotes the understanding and use of SCSI technology
and influences the evolution of SCSI standards to meet future industry
needs.

It can work with any operating systems such as Unix and all its versions, Microsofts Windows and so forth.

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Both cards are now available in a PCI-X low-profile MD2 form factor for
high -density servers and offer full capacity utilization of mixed size
drives.442. SAS products are ready for market due, in part, to
three successful 2004 plugfests that were timed to support the SAS
technology development schedule.

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Allows up to 8, 16 or 32 addresses on the bus depending on the width of the bus .

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(NASDAQ: ADPT) provides end-to-end storage solutions that
reliably move, manage, and protect critical data and digital content.

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Adaptec, Inc.adaptec.

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Recent Serial Attached SCSI Plugfest Advances Market Readiness; Large `System Builds' Include More Than 110 Drives

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com. The Association has a nine-member Board of Directors that
oversees the Marketing Communications and Technology Committees and
all STA activities. To subscribe to Serial Storage Wire, STA's free
Serial Attached SCSI newsletter, please visit:
www.

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Adaptec's new SCSI RAID ROC adapters are the first to offer PCI-X
compatibility for resellers and system integrators looking to enable faster
communications within a server (double that achievable in PCI). "Both the Adaptec 2230S and 2130S adapters
are ideal for PCI-X server platforms with extensive internal or external
storage requirements, offering customers the proven RAID performance and
reliability that is only available with a single-chip implementation from
Adaptec.),
respectively . Expectations are that by summer of 2005, a significant
number of system and subsystem products will be introduced to the
market.

It's an intelligent peripheral I/O interface with a standard, device independent protocol that allows many different peripheral devices to be attached to the host's SCSI port.

For more information see SCSI-1 X3.

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Total SCSI cable length is dependent on the type of SCSI .

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An optional battery backup offers an additional layer of
fault-tolerant data protection as well .S.

Adaptec RAID Software

Both adapters are built on Adaptec's hardened RAID core -- the most robust
and reliable data protection software available today.

About Adaptec

Adaptec , Inc.

About STA

The SCSI Trade Association was established in 1995 to provide a
focal point for members to communicate the benefits of SCSI to the
industry.

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In addition,
Adaptec has optimized the Ultra320 SCSI performance by maximizing bus
utilization and minimizing command overhead as multiple commands are
transferred in a single connection and at higher speeds. In 2004, Adaptec
acquired Snap Appliance, the number-one volume leader in network-attached
storage, further extending the Adaptec product offering.adaptec.

Many motherboards now are being designed to incorporate SCSI.

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"At the moment, this support appears to be strong.

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"Data-intensive, high-availability applications such as video-on-demand,
Network-Attached Storage, and database, file, web, and mail servers require
higher performance RAID solutions that come in a smaller, more
cost-effective form factor," said Ian Williams Adaptec director of channel
marketing for Storage Products. Adaptec's extensive RAID product line enables
original equipment manufacturers, resellers, and integrators to meet a wide
variety of current and emerging customer requirements, while Adaptec's
unified set of software management tools dramatically simplifies product
configuration, installation, and management. In addition
to the large system tests, several new physical layer tests, developed
by UNH-IOL, were inaugurated to help companies ensure that they have
adequate design margins in their physical level designs.

These devices may be hard disks, floppy disks, CDs, tape drives, printers and scanners to name a few.

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Designed to be easily inserted into a PCI-X slot in entry-level and
mid-range pedestal and space-saving rack-mount servers, the Adaptec SCSI
RAID 2230S and 2130S adapters enable advanced RAID data protection features
that maximize system resources and reduce downtime.

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The system builds contained more than 110 drives and were assembled
through the cooperation of controller, HBA, expander , enclosure, drive
and test equipment vendors. Despite significant incursions and continuing
growth in Fibre Channel and SATA shipments, Gartner predicts that SAS
will remain the largest volume multi -user HDD interface, with a
greater than 40 percent share in 2009, becoming the principal heir to
an enormous SCSI legacy.org or call
the STA office at 415-561-6273.

STA Member Companies Attending the Plugfest:

Adaptec
Amphenol
BizLink Technology
Catalyst Enterprises
Dell
EqualLogic
Finisar
Fujitsu
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
LeCroy / CATC
LSI Logic
Maxtor
NEC Electronics
PMC-Sierra
Promise Technology
Seagate
Vitesse
Xyratex Technology

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SCSI is a 'stand alone' independent communications channel.

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(NASDAQ: ADPT), a leader in
storage solutions, today announced Adaptec SCSI RAID 2230S and 2130S
adapters, the industry's first Ultra320 SCSI RAID-on-Chip (ROC) based
single - and dual-channel storage adapters for the PCI-X interconnect. Adaptec's
PCI-X optimization delivers superior system performance in a smaller size
and with less power consumption over other PCI-X boards . Large SAS storage systems are expected to enter the market in
the next few months, as the rate of SAS product introduction
accelerates.

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They also support one or two external connectors to
allow the addition of expanded data storage as needed. The vendors worked together to demonstrate
the maturity of SAS technology and to verify that components and
subsystems from many vendors will seamlessly interoperate.

Peripherals may be mounted in the computer or in an external enclosure .

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More information can be obtained at http://raid.com
or by calling 800.

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PRESS RELEASE Adaptec Announces First PCI-X RAID-on-Chip Adapters for Higher Performance +amp; Reliability in Smaller Form Factor

SAS market readiness marks the culmination of three years of
technology development, interoperability testing, product development
and manufacturing. For more information, please visit the STA
web site at info@scsita.

SCSI provides a high-speed, intelligent interface that allows an easy connection for up to 16 devices (8 devices for Narrow SCSI) on a single bus.

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00 and $725.
Harry Mason, President of STA and Director of Industry Marketing
for LSI Logic, stated: "The large system builds brought together a
representative cross section of products from multiple suppliers to
test interoperability of the SAS interface.