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JMR DELIVERS COST-EFFECTIVE, SMALL FOOTPRINT StorBlade

JMR Electronics, a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions offering one of the industry's widest selections of SCSI and Fibre Channel storage devices, has announced StorBlade, a revolutionary approach to rackmounted storage solutions. Designed to maximize available rack space without comprising on features or storage capacities, StorBlade delivers the ultimate in affordable, scalable storage solutions in the smallest form factor ever available to IT professionals.

Created as a solution for existing blade and rackmount servers, StorBlade ships as a 1U high, 4-bay rackmount enclosure available in SCSI RAID, SCSI JBOD and 2Gb Fibre RAID configurations. Each ultra-thin StorBlade offers a 584GB maximum capacity with the ability to easily daisy chain multiple units to rapidly increase storage capacity while using the smallest amount of rack space.

"From its inception, StorBlade has been designed to maximize available rack space without compromise, providing flexibility with a simple and affordable upgrade path to scale storage as requirements grow," Josef Rabinovitz, president and CEO, JMR Electronics, said. "With StorBlade SCSI RAID, you'll get the complete RAID feature set typically found in larger and more expensive storage solutions. By using StorBlade SCSI RAID and StorBlade SCSI JBOD in tandem, RAID sets can easily be scaled to meet the toughest storage requirements with an ultra-efficient footprint."

Supporting Windows NT/2000, Mac, SUN, SGI, Linux and other major operating systems, StorBlade SCSI solutions are Ultra160 compatible, scalable from 146GB to 584GB capacity and feature dual 68-pin connectors, dual SCSI channels (with two drives per channel), dual blowers and a 200 watt power supply.

For IT professionals seeking Fibre Channel storage, StorBlade is available in 2Gb JBOD solutions. StorBlade 2Gb Fibre Channel RAID configurations deliver support for RAID 0, 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 50, hot swappable HDDs, and FC-2 drives. StorBlade also features disk array software to create and manage RAID arrays, dedicated or global spare drive support, online capacity expansion, online RAID level migration, and complete disk array migration. Integrated system hardware for RAID versions feature an embedded RAID controller, one host connection, and two disk connections with up to a 512MB cache memory with battery backup.

Availability

StorBlade SCSI is available through reseller channels. StorBlade Fibre Channel is available directly through JMR.

About JMR

As one of the first manufacturers to develop a complete family of Fibre Channel storage solutions, JMR offers a wide array of scalable storage systems to handle both bandwidth- and I/O-intensive environments. The company's FORTRA family is an advanced, modular storage technology incorporating patented technologies with solutions spanning from 4-, 6-, 8- and 10-bay desktop JBODs to 10- and 15-bay Fibre-to-Fibre RAID solutions. JMR also manufactures the widest selection of SCSI solutions in its USA-based ISO 9001 facilities.

JMR is among the 11 leading hardware and software partners involved in the Open Storage Management Resources (OSMR) program in the United States and Europe who have joined forces to ensure product-to-product compatibility and deliver simplified and affordable SAN solutions to the market. E-Z SAN is the first certified product from this alliance and provides 1.1 Terabytes and more of easily managed storage. Additional information on JMR and its product offerings can be found at www.jmr.com.