Xyratex Debuts OneStor(R) Storage Platform.

Storage Family Offers Significant Energy Efficiencies, Enhanced Reliability and Extensible Architecture for Long-Term Return on Investment

HAVANT, England -- Xyratex Ltd. (NASDAQ:XRTX), a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and storage process technology, today unveiled its new OneStor Extensible Storage Platform (ESP) and announced the first in a series of scalable offerings that will be available for storage and server OEMs. OneStor is a modular, standards-based architecture designed to meet diverse needs combining storage density, intelligent platform management, power efficiency, and the industry's most versatile storage system design. Xyratex will demonstrate OneStor at the Storage Networking World (SNW) Fall exhibition and conference in Dallas, Texas October 15-18 in booth G13.

"Reducing power consumption and maximizing floor space are top priorities for many organizations today -- and they are getting tougher each day," said Heidi Biggar, analyst, ESG. "This puts pressure on vendors to offer systems that are not only feature-rich but also green. Xyratex's OneStor architecture keeps pace with these market demands, providing a flexible, efficient platform for future growth."

The initial product in the family, the OneStor SP1424s, supports up to 24TB of tiered SAS and SATA disk drive storage in a 4U rack-mount enclosure with expansion capability up to 96TB. High availability host connections are achieved via dual 3Gb SAS I/O modules, each with integral data path redundancy and expansion ports. The combination of performance and scalability makes OneStor the perfect choice in a wide variety of storage and application environments, including digital media, compliance retention and data archival.

By utilizing the Xyratex OneStor OEM Developers Kit (ODK) to design custom "personality modules," OEMs and system integrators can easily tailor deployment of high performance storage solutions as their requirements and technologies evolve. Example personality modules may include server blades, RAID controllers and NAS devices, all of which could then be deployed across the entire OneStor ESP family.

Key OneStor platform benefits include:

* Flexible and Scalable Architecture: Through effective use of common FRUs, a common management API and SBB 2.0 compatibility, OneStor ESP enables OEMs to accelerate market introduction and product upgrades while significantly reducing costs associated with spares inventory across the family.

* Robust Reliability: Through its intelligent platform management, OneStor ESP safeguards data and ensures maximum availability. Users are able to leverage fault diagnosis and resolution capabilities, error logging and monitoring. In addition, OneStor provides high availability features such as N+1 PSU, dual I/O modules and dual data paths to all drives.

* Energy Efficiency: OneStor minimizes environmental impact through new "green" advancements in Xyratex technology including: scalable power supply profiles based on disk selection; individual drive power control; advanced adaptive cooling technology and 85+ percent efficient power conversion. Additionally, OneStor is designed to meet stringent worldwide requirements for recycling and environmental friendliness.

"Drawing from our expertise in high-efficiency power, packaging and cooling designs, Xyratex continues to enhance customer investment in our products by delivering a single platform that accelerates time to market, lowers total cost of ownership and enhances the product value," said Lisa Hart, vice president of marketing, Networked Storage Solutions, Xyratex. "Indicative of our customer commitment, OneStor, combined with a set of comprehensive support services, provides our OEMs access to the industry's most extensible, value-added storage solution on the market."

About Xyratex

Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and storage process technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. Xyratex has over 20 years of experience in research and development relating to disk drives, storage systems and high-speed communication protocols.

Founded in 1994 in a management buy-out from IBM, and with headquarters in the UK, Xyratex has an established global base with R&D and operational facilities in Europe, the United States and South East Asia. For more information, visit Xyratex's Web site at www.xyratex.com

OneStor is registered in the U.S. as a trademark of Xyratex Ltd.