California, April 2007 — System Upgrade's Spartan EC-36TB is Aimed at applications requiring large-capacity and low-cost disk storage, the System Upgrade Spartan EC-36TB product delivers enterprise class features that are increasingly crucial for mid-range storage users. The System Upgrade EC-36TB system provides affordable and highly available access to very large magnitudes of stored data, which is critical for meeting regulatory and legal compliance requirements and for supporting virtual tape libraries (VTL) and digital media, messaging and scientific applications.

The System Upgrade EC-36TB system features:
• High Availability and Performance: The highly fault-tolerant architecture of the EC-36TB has no single point of failure with two RAID controllers per chassis and host-based dynamic multi-pathing that maintains continuous access to application data. Additional performance features include four 4Gb/s Fibre Channel host connections, 3G SAS drive connectivity and an advanced feature set that includes RAID 6 and Snapshot.
• Power Savings and Cooling: The EC-36TB has the lowest power consumption (50 percent more TB/KW) and highest density (33 percent more TB/Sq. ft.) of any nearline storage RAID system on the market. The innovative cooling technology maintains drives at their ambient temperature at all times, thus ensuring a long storage life.
• Ultra-Cost-Effective Storage: There is minimal disruption and downtime for upgrades as the EC-36TB supports flexible configurations and will accommodate a variety of drives as they increase in capacity. Components are hot-swappable and backwards-compatible, reducing the need for major migrations and forklift upgrades. SATA II drives provide the best price for performance.
• Expandability: The EC-36TB delivers an industry leading 36 TB of storage in less than seven inches of rack space (4U). System Upgrade delivers more capacity in one enclosure than many fully expanded storage systems that are available today.
• Reliability: With System Upgrade's EC-36TB there is no single point of failure with two RAID controllers per chassis and host-based dynamic multipathing that maintain continuous access to application data. All this at the highest speed available.

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