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New Product Rollout Includes Application Ready Platforms, 4Gb Solutions and Expanded SAS Products ORLANDO, Fla. and HAVANT, United Kingdom, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Xyratex Ltd (NASDAQ:XRTX), a leader in delivering high performance and highly scalable storage systems for the OEM and System Integrator market, announced today an expanded family of products at Storage Networking World 2005 in Orlando, Florida. The company's presence at this event will be focused on recent merger highlights as well as a showcase of product offerings that fit a variety of customer environments and storage intensive applications. Xyratex will be demonstrating an expanded family of offerings at SNW including the recently acquired line of nStor products and technologies, and a series of new product announcements that will be presented at the show. "We are seeing a growing emphasis and awareness of data asset management within the small-to-medium size business (SMB) market," noted Todd Gresham, senior vice president of Xyratex Storage Systems. "I am very excited by the opportunities to deploy our integrated technology roadmap more widely, especially in the high growth entry-level storage systems market." Steve Thompson, Xyratex's CTO further added, "We continue to deliver on our promise of providing our customers with an ever expanding product breadth and technology base with a well defined path to higher scalability and performance. Our product and technology base now spans from bulk storage applications, such as near-line and data warehousing storage systems, to entry-level application ready storage appliance platforms." Product Highlights at the show include: * HS-1235 Application Ready Platform -- This unique offering creates the foundation for a robust and flexible storage appliance. Ideally suited to meet the increased application requirements of today's OEM and Solution Integrators, this appliance technology combines low-cost, high capacity disk drives with high speed network connections and industry standard operating systems to provide a platform capable of supporting a variety of applications. Customers will now have the flexibility to optimize their configuration to best fit their application requirements and target markets. A variety of these appliances are showcased throughout the SNW event at Xyratex customer and partner booths. * 4Gbit Connectivity -- Continuing its lead in 4Gbit technology, Xyratex's previously announced SBOD (Switched Bunch of Disks) enclosures will be the cornerstone of a number of Partners and Industry demonstrations at SNW. Complementing the push to 4Gbit, Xyratex will also be showcasing the new 5402 4G FC-SAS/SATA RAID enclosure, which leverages technology from the nStor acquisition. The 5402 is a logical evolution of nStor's highly successful 5200 2G FC-SAS/SATA RAID product, announced at SNW Spring, with embedded storage management capabilities and tiered storage. * 4835 Mass Storage Solution -- Positioned for the disk-to-disk and tape emulation markets, the high density 48 drive 4U enclosure offers high availability, Fibre Channel connectivity, and up to 24 TB of storage capacity using cost effective SATA drives. This offering is ideal for addressing traditional near-line applications. * SAS -- Native SAS connectivity, as well as FC-SAS expansion will be demonstrated as part of the Xyratex technology demonstration of emerging trends in the industry. The 3U 16 drive enclosure offers Xyratex's OEM and System Integrator customers SAS expandability and connectivity up to 48 TB. These exciting announcements, coupled with an extensive showcase of products, further demonstrate a commitment to customers that solidify Xyratex's leadership position in delivering high performance and highly scalable storage systems for the OEM and System Integrator markets. Xyratex Storage Solutions are displayed on stand G21 and throughout SNW Fall 2005. Executives and staff will be on hand to answer any questions about the above or existing products. For additional information, please visit http://www.xyratex.com/. About Xyratex Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and network technology. The company designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides OEM and disk drive manufacturer customers 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 its 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. DATASOURCE: Xyratex CONTACT: Public Relations, Curtis Chan, +1-714-447-4993, , or Investor Relations, Brad Driver, +1-408-325-7260, Web site: http://www.xyratex.com/

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