RAID Announces Qualification of their SATA-2 Storage Solutions by Canopus for EDIUS HD

Release Date: July 8, 2005

Lawrence MA—RAID Incorporated, a Massachusetts-based storage platform developer and managed storage services company, announced that their Serial ATA-2 based solutions has been officially qualified by Canopus Corporation for use with EDIUS HD, Canopus' s acclaimed high definition non-linear video editing solution. EDIUS HD is the most powerful solution in Canopus' s non-linear video editing arsenal, giving editors real-time, mixed format HD / SD editing, and real-time compositing, chromakeying, titling and monitoring. Featuring unrivaled video transcoding technology, EDIUS HD performs conversion between different HD and SD resolutions, aspect ratios and frame rates, all in real-time.

“Qualifying our storage systems and partnering with Canopus is another important step as RAID continues to work closely with leading edge application and solution providers. Our view on partnerships simply allows users the ability to know that both firms have decided that working together is best for both RAID and Canopus' s user base,” stated Marc DiZoglio , Vice President of Sales at RAID Inc. “We look forward to working very closely with Canopus and their loyal customer base for many years to come.”

RAID's SATA-2 product line offers superior performance to any system in its class of storage with 3Gb internal bandwidth that features NCQ support for I/O transactions. With sequential reads in RAID 5 of 400mbs/sec and writes of 380mbs/sec, RAID's SATA-2 based storage systems include 8, 12 and 16-Bay configurations with Ultra320 SCSI support or 2-Gigabit Fibre Channel interfaces which support 12 and 15 bay configurations. All RAID SATA-2 products offer simple field replacement and hot-swap ability for all removable components including; RAID controllers, drive carriers, power supplies, and cooling modules.

“The performance of the RAID unit was impressive. With sustained read and write figures in excess of 250Mb per second, EDIUS HD was easily capable of five streams of HD for sustained periods and six streams in bursts,” said Brandon Higa, Marketing Engineer, Canopus Corporation. “We are happy to be associated with products that enhance our competitive edge, and we are pleased to be partnering with RAID at the forthcoming IBC in Amsterdam in September.”

About RAID Incorporated
Headquartered in Lawrence, MA, RAID Incorporated is a managed storage services provider (MSSP) and designs customized storage systems and solutions. RAID Incorporated's flagship service StorageWatch® is the industries only real-time monitoring and managed storage service which reduces customers total cost of ownership by reducing operational costs associated with maintaining and administering storage systems while increasing data availability. Since 1994, RAID has been devoted to researching and developing leading edge technologies while providing twenty-four hour support services to become one of the industry leaders. RAID specializes in solving compute, application, and disaster recovery needs with a unique platform combining hardware, software, and services. www.raidinc.com

About Canopus Corporation
Canopus Corporation, based in San Jose, Calif., is a subsidiary of Canopus Co., Ltd, headquartered in Kobe, Japan. Canopus designs and markets award-winning digital video and graphics solutions for video professionals and enthusiasts. The company combines innovative hardware and software designs to set new standards in performance, functionality and reliability. Industry leaders worldwide recognize Canopus' s advanced HD, HDV, DV and MPEG codec technologies, which are featured in the company's acclaimed video editing solutions, transcoding products and network-based video distribution systems. Canopus also has offices in the U.K., Germany, Italy, Australia and China in addition to an extensive worldwide distribution network. For more information contact Canopus at (408) 954-4500 or visit the Web site at www.canopus.com

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RAID Incorporated
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Email: bob_picardi@raidinc.com