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nStor Introduces the OneStor Family of Industry Leading SAS and SATA Storage Solutions SAS and SATA Solutions Tailored for the Small and Midsized Markets Unprecedented Flexibility and Performance PHOENIX, Storage Networking World, April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- nStor Corporation, a subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:NSO) and an innovative developer of storage network solutions, announced today their new OneStor(TM) family of products. Building upon nStor's core engineering expertise in SCSI and SATA technologies, the OneStor family utilizes proven Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology that provides unprecedented performance, flexibility and availability. At Storage Networking World, nStor is showcasing the OneStor 5200FA, the industry's first active/active dual controller SAS/SATA system and the OneStor 5000AA SAS/SATA Disk Expansion unit. These products are highly scalable to fit a variety of customer environments and storage-intensive applications. The OneStor family is the next generation architecture from nStor. Coupled with StorView's built-in management and monitoring software, OneStor is the ultimate choice for businesses of all sizes that can benefit through greater flexibility, high density packaging and industry leading price/performance. nStor is the first to bring an active/active dual controller SAS/SATA system to market that satisfies the needs of high availability and bandwidth intensive applications. By combining high performance SAS and cost effective SATA storage into one system, businesses can consolidate their business applications from rigorous online transactions to capacity intensive backups. Fully configured, the OneStor 5200FA and OneStor 5000AA deliver industry leading performance more than three times faster than that of parallel SCSI today. nStor's modular design and dense packaging in a 2U configuration offers hot swappable and redundant components for continuous data availability and efficient business operations. According to Todd Gresham, nStor president and CEO, "These products raise the bar in performance and flexibility to deliver an enterprise-class solution, offering the ultimate in customer choice. We are addressing customer needs through easy to use, self-managing and affordable storage solutions." This new design meets bandwidth requirements for high performance computing such as digital media, seismic processing and genetic research by taking advantage of the 3 GB/s transfer rate of SAS and the architectural efficiency built into the family of products. Organizations utilizing these systems for transactional applications will realize a greater return on investment and cost savings, since they operate more efficiently and are able to meet higher performance levels. With the OneStor family, nStor's customers will be able to deliver high performance solutions that satisfy the demand for a highly available, performance oriented and economically priced system. MESoft, a leading provider of solutions to the media and entertainment industries, sees definite benefits to nStor's new product offerings. According to Freddy Goeske, Founder and Vice President of Technology at MESoft, "With the OneStor family of storage solutions, nStor provides a new level of choice for customers. MESoft's bandwidth intensive applications require a high-performance product like nStor's that is both affordable and easy to use." The 5000AA Disk Expansion system is shipping today and the 5200FA dual controller active/active system will be available in the second quarter of this year. nStor will be showcasing its high-performance OneStor storage solutions in booth PP30. About nStor Corporation, Inc. Headquartered in Carlsbad, Calif., nStor is a wholly owned subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:NSO) and developer of data storage solutions that are ideally suited for both large enterprises as well as small to mid- sized businesses. The Company's flagship controller technology and StorView software form the foundation for the OneStor and NexStor family of turnkey solutions that support today's most popular operating environments. Designed for storage-intensive environments and mission-critical applications, nStor's products are offered in various architectures including Fibre Channel, SAS, SCSI and SATA and are focused on addressing customers' business needs and applications. The Company markets its storage solutions through a global network of OEM partners and solutions integrators. For more information, visit http://www.nstor.com/. About Storage Networking World Storage Networking World, co-owned by IDG's Computerworld and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), is the industry's largest gathering of storage networking professionals and thought leaders. This premier event, taking place April 12-15, 2005 at the JW Marriot Desert Ridge Resort in Phoenix, Ariz., offers both vendor and user communities the opportunity to explore today's storage technology market and help develop the future of storage networking solutions. The latest conference agenda and program information are available online at http://www.snwusa.com/. This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward- looking" statements, usually containing the words "believe," "estimated," "project," "expect," "anticipate," or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, the Company's inability to increase sales to current customers and to expand its customer base, continued acceptance of the Company's products in the marketplace, the Company's inability to improve the gross margin on its products, competitive factors, dependence upon third-party vendors, outcome of litigation, insufficient funding and other risks detailed in the Company's periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward- looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release. nStor, OneStor and StorView are registered trademarks of nStor Technologies, Inc. DATASOURCE: nStor Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Veena Raman of nStor Corporation, Inc., +1-760-683-2500, Web site: http://www.nstor.com/ http://www.snwusa.com/

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