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direct-attached storage, tiered-storage and storage area network
enterprise data storage solutions.

Bell Microproducts Announces 'The Future of Network Storage'

Bell's New Hammer Network Storage Line to Feature
Zetera's Breakthrough SoIP Technology

SAN JOSE, Calif. "Simply put, our new Hammer Network Storage
line represents the future of network storage. At the same time, less expensive SATA-based
solutions are expected to capture a growing share of the enterprise IT market,
providing additional tiers of storage and often supplanting costlier SCSI and
Fibre Channel disk drives. Trained and certified technical personnel provide these
services at Bell Microproducts' ISO 9001:2000 facilities.com

About Zetera Corporation:
Founded in 2002, Zetera Corporation is a developer of patent-pending
technology that enables networked storage to be realized at unprecedented
price-performance levels. Investors should take such risks into account when making
investment decisions. Now with the introduction of the
three VTrak V-Class systems , Promise has improved on the VTrak 15100 and added
more choices for reliable storage.
"While today's IT managers are increasingly using working-class server
storage with SATA drives for low -cost, high-capacity storage applications like
disk-based backup, more and more users are discovering that these same
solutions meet the performance needs of more demanding applications," said
Suresh Panikar, vice president of worldwide channel sales and marketing,
Promise Technology, Inc. For enhanced data protection, the VTrak system uses advanced
data guarding technologies such as Predictive Data Migration(TM), Media
Patrol(TM), PerfectRAID(TM), and a battery-backed data cache.

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1U rackmount products will compete with
entry-level SAN solutions by providing better performance, scalability and
reliability at a very attractive price point., Netgear
and StorCase.

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More information can be found in the Company's SEC
filings, or by visiting the Bell Microproducts web site at http://www . With its strong
performance and exceptional reliability, its support for off-the-shelf Serial
ATA (SATA) and Parallel ATA (PATA) disk drives, and its cluster-friendly dual
Ultra 160 SCSI host interface , the VTrak 15100 has established broad
acceptance in a wide range of applications.

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For more information , visit the company's web site at
http://www."
The VTrak V-Class series leverages Promise Technology 's "freedom-of-
choice" support for off-the-shelf SATA drives or PATA drives using an optional
Promise SATA-to-PATA adapter, providing a competitive storage solution at a
fraction of the price.

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Our customers want storage
that is faster, more scalable, easier to manage and less expensive. The VTrak(TM ) V-Class Family Expands on the Strong Foundation of Very
Reliable, Cost-Effective RAID Storage Systems for Capacity-Hungry Applications
with Increased Performance, Enhanced Functionality and More Data Protection

MILPITAS, Calif. The VTrak 8110 and the VTrak 12110 use a new space-saving 2U
rackmount enclosure, while the VTrak 15110 uses the popular 3U enclosure
available with the VTrak 15100.

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"The SA-3000T is the fastest SATA II system on the market.
Zetera's architecture uses distributed controllers to eliminate the high
cost and performance limitations of fixed RAID controllers . The technology was invented by the creators of the
IDE and ATAPI disk drive standards, which have shipped in the billions of disk
drives.,
Zetera licenses its technology to leading storage, computer , peripheral and
device manufacturers worldwide, including Bell Microproducts, Inc., Promise Technology , Inc.
Promise Technology maintains ongoing product development relationships with
leading ATA hard drive manufacturers and server and storage OEMs.

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BURLINGTON, Mass.
The desktop will deliver a superior price/performance advantage over competing
desktop 4-bay NAS products. By using IP as
the storage fabric, costly specialty switches and host bus adapters are
replaced with commodity Ethernet switches.promise.

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Bell Microproducts is an international, value-added provider of a wide
range of high-technology products, solutions , and services to the industrial
and commercial markets. The VTrak system also supports standard management
interfaces including SNMP, CIM, and WBEM for simplified integration with
enterprise management systems. With its history of
ATA product and technology development, Promise Technology is the recognized
world leader in SATA controllers, SATA RAID cards and SATA RAID subsystems.

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Systems, Inc. "The blazing speed of the SA-3000T
Series is accomplished by a new enhanced 266 MHz ASIC architecture
resulting in higher internal bandwidth. The Hammer line will include
solutions offering greater than 24TB capacity later in this year. The Company adds value with a broad range of services
including system design, integration, installation, maintenance, and other
consulting services.

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Users can
acquire the VTrak V-Class family of systems and other Promise ATA and Serial
ATA storage solutions through our excellent coverage of worldwide
distributors.

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, Bell Microproducts ,
Inc. The Company's offering includes semiconductors,
computer platforms, peripherals, and storage products of various types
including desktop, high-end computer and storage subsystems, fibre channel
connectivity products, RAID, NAS and SAN storage systems and back-up products.bellmicro.

About Promise Technology, Inc.

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FlashAlert, a 24-hour
"call-home" remote monitoring and alert service is also included for
one year. For
more information visit Winchester Systems on the web at
www .winsys. "We are proud to bring our technology to the
business market with the world leader in storage product distribution."
Hammer business storage will offer robust storage management software for
small and large IT operations that enable the unique, advanced features
delivered by Zetera technology. The company undertakes no obligation to
update publicly or revise any forward-looking statements.

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Included with every data storage solution is the FlashConsole
appliance, providing complete centralized management using any
browser-based workstation on the LAN.
Pricing starts at under $10,000.com

Bell Microproducts is an industry-recognized specialist in storage products
and is one of the world's largest storage-centric value-added distributors.
The VTrak 8110 lists for $3,499 (MSRP), VTrak 12110 lists for $4,199
(MSRP), VTrak 15110 lists for $4,899 (MSRP), and is shipping now.

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The Hammer product line is uniquely positioned to
take advantage of these trends.
The Company's products are available at any level of integration, from
components to subsystem assemblies and fully-integrated, tested and certified
system solutions.

And for increase
performance with this upgrade, the new VTrak V-Class systems add command
queuing support available on the latest SATA drives.

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Its
raw speed combined with next generation SATA II disk technology makes
this system suitable for applications such as high performance capture
and playback of multiple video streams or super fast backup in
disk-to-disk backup applications", stated Dave Geene, Vice President
of Sales at Winchester Systems. The new product line will include desktop and
rackmount solutions for business users with capacities reaching two terabytes.

Safe Harbor Statement for Bell Microproducts:
This release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995., the
originator and global leader in SATA RAID data protection and storage
solutions, today introduced three new upgrades to the highly successful
VTrak(TM) 15100 SATA RAID storage system for direct-attached storage (DAS ). "Promise's VTrak V-Class family of RAID systems bring
reliable, high-performance near-line storage to organizations deploying cost-
effective, small to medium application clusters, disk-to-disk backup , and
other vertical applications that use multiple terabytes of direct-attach disk
storage space .
Headquartered in Milpitas, CA, the company maintains offices in Europe,
Taiwan, and China.

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Winchester Systems Announces New Mid-range SATA Storage Array; Doubles the Performance with SATA-II disk technology

Thanks to
our Zetera alliance, we can now deliver exactly what the market demands. Leveraging the latest IP advances, Zetera has created a new class of
network storage technology that is superior in performance, cost, scalability
and compatibility to all other types of network storage.
The VTrak V-Class takes advantage of Promise's new, advanced performance
controller that delivers up to 200 MB per second and up to 20,000 I/Os per
second, offering strong performance for both high throughput and transactional
applications such as video and database applications.

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These solutions include high
performance SCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays; tape backup
devices and other high performance commercial and military grade data
storage for mid-range servers including Windows, Linux, and UNIX.
Zetera's SoIP-based architecture provides the ease of use and file /volume
sharing of NAS technology, providing far superior performance and scalability
at substantially lower price points.

About Bell Microproducts, Inc. For system protection and high availability , the system features
a host of hot-swap redundant systems including drives, power supplies, and
cooling systems.
Promise Technology is the originator and global leader in SATA RAID, using
cost-effective SATA technology to design and manufacture fast, reliable data
protection and storage alternatives to SCSI RAID systems.

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The worldwide market for business storage is expected to continue to grow
at double digit rates over the next several years, led by NAS and
fabric-attached SAN solutions . Bell Microproducts
markets and distributes more than 140 brand name product lines, as well as its
own Rorke Data, Hammer storage brands and Markvision memory modules, to
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), contract electronic manufacturing
services (CEMS) customers, value-added resellers (VARs ) and system integrators
in the Americas and Europe.zetera. The system is extremely
easy to manage through a web interface using Promise Array Manager (PAM)
Professional software.

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Based in Irvine , Ca.

Promise Expands Successful VTrak Family of Direct-Attached Storage With New Improved Solutions for 8 12 and 15 Drives

Storage subsystems include network attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), RAID, tape libraries and optical jukeboxes.

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"Zetera's new storage architecture is one of those rare technology
breakthroughs that is superior in every dimension to its predecessors," said
Zetera CEO, Chuck Cortright. Zetera-based storage is inherently
virtualized, enabling storage solutions to scale smoothly across enclosures,
up to a maximum volume size of 128 petabytes. For added
flexibility in configuring storage arrays, the VTrak V-Class supports LUN
masking and LUN carving for multiple application and OS support on the same
storage system.
The VTrak V-Class series offers a dual host port interface architecture
that enables the system to be connected to two separate servers via
independent Ultra SCSI 160 ports for redundant access and small cluster
applications.

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Since its launch over one year ago, the VTrak 15100 has become
increasingly popular with organizations looking for rock-solid storage
solutions for their working-class data applications.
Built around the same great storage platform, the VTrak 8110, VTrak 12110
and VTrak 15110 systems support up to eight, twelve, and fifteen hard disk
drives, respectively, offering users storage based on their capacity and space
requirements.

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, a leading data storage solutions company , today
introduced a new RAID array with outstanding performance results.
Zetera technology enables Hammer network storage devices for business to
perform better, scale more fluidly and provides superior virtualization to
what is available from today's more costly NAS and SAN devices. Users get the power and scalability of
SAN architectures, with superior usability and far lower cost. With freedom-of-choice configuration, Promise
Technology's external RAID storage systems ship without hard disk drives,
providing users with the flexibility to configure the system depending upon
their unique capacity, performance, and budget requirements. To make the system
available to a wide variety of networks and applications, the VTrak leverages
a standards-compliant architecture.

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(Nasdaq: BELM ), a leading, worldwide distributor of data storage
products, announced today the upcoming launch of a new line of network storage
devices that incorporate Zetera's Storage over Internetworking Protocol (SoIP)
technology. "Bell's move
into business storage is the natural evolution of our great success in
consumer storage under the Hammer brand," said Jerry Kagele, Executive Vice
President, Computer Products. Zetera SoIP devices provide the
highest possible flexibility for storage provisioning , consolidation, and
efficient management.com .

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Geared toward cost effective, high performance SATA II based
requirements, the FlashDisk Turbo Series supports up to 450 MB per
second for Reads and 350 MB per second Writes."
FlashDisk SA-3400T supports a single 64-bit RAID controller with
dual 2 Gb Fibre Channel or Ultra-320 SCSI host connectivity and is
designed for extremely high performance , non-mission critical
applications. Such forward-looking
statements, which reflect the Company 's current views of future events and
financial performance, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties which
could cause actual results or facts to differ materially from such statements
for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: the ability to
successfully integrate the operations of recent acquisitions, industry
conditions, changes in product supply, pricing, and customer demand ,
competition, other vagaries in the computer and electronic components markets,
changes in relationships with key suppliers, foreign currency fluctuations and
the other risks described from time to time in the Company's reports to the
Securities and Exchange Commission (including the company's Annual Report on
Form 10-K). These new
storage systems deliver the performance, reliability and data protection for
capacity-hungry direct-attached storage applications like disk-based backup,
video editing, and near-line storage.

More About The VTrak 8110, VTrak 12110, and VTrak 15110 RAID Storage
Systems
From off-the-shelf drive support to its controller and enclosure designs,
the VTrak V-Class platform uses a standards-compliant architecture to provide
maximum system flexibility .
The VTrak V-Class adds enhancements that enable the system to take
advantage of the latest SATA drives that support command queuing, including
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and SATA Tagged Command Queuing (TCQ).

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The new product line, which moves Bell Microproducts solidly into
the business network storage space, will include desktop and rackmount devices
for business users, and is slated for release under Bell Microproducts' Hammer
Storage brand in the first quarter of 2006. Shareholders and other readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as
of the date on which they are made.
The VTrak V-Class replaces the original 15100 with three new models, the VTrak
8110, the VTrak 12110, and the VTrak 15110 RAID storage system . For more information, visit Promise Technology's website at
http://www.