August 5, 2004 - Tekram Systems Co.,Ltd, A global manufacturer of SCSI and RAID Solutions, announced it will begin shipping its High-End Serial ATA RAID Controller Cards - The SIR-X Series, will offer storage VAR's and system builders an excellent choice and increased performance for RAID levels 0, 0+1, 1, 3, 5, JBOD and the first to offer RAID 6, allowing for additional fault tolerance by using Double Parity. Data is stripped across a set of drives, just like in RAID 5, and a second set of parity is calculated and written across all the drives, providing for an extremely high data fault tolerance and able to sustain multiple simultaneous drive failures, Making the Tekram SIR-X Serial ATA RAID Controllers the Perfect Solution for mission critical applications and the only serial controller to deliver Extreme Performance, RAID level 6 parallel to RAID level 5 Performance.

The SIR-X Series is also the first to equip an Intel 250Mhz/64-Bit Processor and 128MB of DDR333 Memory with ECC protection delivering extreme hardware RAID performance without compromising the system processor, occupy host memory, or consume CPU cycles. Translating to Outstanding High-End Performance only offered by Tekram.

Tekram Serial ATA Technology improves data transmission through a point-to-point communication; delivering full 1.5Gb/s data transfer rates to each connected drive, providing simultaneous access to all drives without sharing bandwidth, delivering a Superior Performance.

Availability

The New Tekram Serial ATA RAID Controllers will be available with 4-Ports (Model SIR-804X) and 8-Ports (Model SIR-808X) supporting the 64-bit, 66Mhz PCI Slot and also High-End PCI X Slots. Both models will be available worldwide through authorized Tekram distributors. Please contact Tekram at 714-961-0800 for additional information or visit us on the web at http://www.Tekram.com

About Tekram Systems Co., Ltd

Founded in 1987, recognized as one of the most famous storage solution providers and manufacturers in the Taiwan area, especially for SCSI and cache controller cards. We are the first company to develop caching disk controllers for the VL-Bus, greatly enhancing system performance.

Tekram innovations like its bus-mastering Enhanced IDE chip and S1040 SCSI controller ASIC (Application Specific IC) have won the company numerous accolades.

Tekram sells through VAR's OEM's and System integrators. Tekram USA is located in Brea, California with sales and distribution in the U.S., Taiwan, China, Germany, Spain, and Sweden.