BOCA RATON, Fla., June 23,. . .CORE International, Inc. today announced the
MicroArray, an inexpensive, revolutionary, new dimension in disk drive
technology that in many ways makes obsolete traditional single, mirrored
or duplexed, hard disk storage devices. It provides vastly improved
storage fault tolerance, better performance, and radical new configuration
capabilities for microcomputers through mainframe systems.

The MicroArray, a unique patent pending design, offers users 510 MB of high
performance fault tolerant storage, in the industry's first 5.25" RAID
(redundant array of inexpensive disks) implementation. The design provides
users with exceptional serviceability and is fully compatible with
industry standard SCSI disk drives. It may be installed in virtually any
computer system's full-height drive bays, or it can be housed in a
standalone enclosure. The MicroArray lists for $6,495.

The MicroArray is ideally suited for users that are concerned with computer
downtime, and the associated cost and headaches. Traditionally, fault
tolerant computer systems were typically found only in financial
institutions, on government sites, hospitals, telecommunications companies
and similar institutions that could not tolerate downtime. Today,
companies small and large depend on information systems to run day to day
business functions, and as a result are not able to tolerate system
failure. The MicroArray is affordable to small companies and in addition
will permit down-sizing from large computers to low cost workstations and
networks. Further, as the user's demand for storage requirements increase,
the MicroArray may be expanded up to 28 arrays, or 14.56 GB per system.
This represents over 7 million pages of stored text and transforms what
traditionally have been thought of as small computers into high capacity,
high performance systems.

"The MicroArray will set a new industry standard in storage subsystems",
said Hal Prewitt CEO/President CORE International, Inc. "For the first
time, the smallest companies can now afford fault tolerant storage for use
with their personal computers whether they are using Microsoft's DOS,
Windows, or IBM OS/2", he added.

Revolutionary Technology

The MicroArray uses RAID technology and advanced data striping. This
implementation provides more efficient utilization of storage and higher
performance than conventional mirroring/duplexing or single disk drives.

Fault tolerant storage is achieved with five 2.5 inch storage modules. Each
module supports a data transfer rate of 6.5 MB/sec, providing 17 ms access
time, and contains a 32Kb (readahead) cache buffer. The storage module has
a 50,000 hour mean-time-between failure reliability rating. Each also
employs Hot Plug, a feature that allows users to remove, or reinstall
storage modules while continuing to have access to data without halting
the computer, or turning off the power. This important feature allows
on-line servicing should a storage module fail.

Built into the MicroArray is a communications port and both visual and
audible alarms to alert the system operator should a component fail.
MicroArray status can be monitored from local and remote locations, as
well as allowing system configurations to be viewed and changed. In
addition, error logging and performance functions may also be monitored.

To provide additional performance and configuration flexibility, the
MicroArray may be connected to multiple computers and shared
simultaneously. This allows users to share the capacity and features among
other users without interfering with each other. Further the system may be
configured so that a single computer "sees" the array as up to eight
separate and distinct disk drives. This substantially increases
performance because, the system is able to access data from up to eight
drives simultaneously. The processing power of eight disk drives may now
be purchased for only a fraction more than the cost of a single disk
drive.

"Core has dramatically altered the shape and direction of disk array
technology. The MicroArray is a product which could very well become the
standard disk drive for all local area network servers". - - Mike Mercer,
Sales Manager, Mass Storage Systems, Tenex Data Corporation, Toronto,
Canada.

Performance Advantages

The MicroArray performs up to 5 times faster than a standard disk drive and
has been engineered to provide the highest level of performance. It is
powered through the use of an advanced 32 bit 25Mhz RISC processor with 1
MB of CPU RAM and 256 KB of Flash memory. In Addition, a 2 MB hardware
error checking/correcting cache memory has been implemented for caching
reads and writes of data. The cache memory has expansion capabilities up
to 8 MB for improved performance.

Industry Compatible

The MicroArray architecture conforms to industry standard SCSI-1 and SCSI-2
command set functions, and supports both single ended or differential
cabling in Synchronous/Asynchronous modes. A major feature of the
MicroArray is that no special operating system device drivers are
required. Installation of the MicroArray is fast and simple on virtually
all computer platforms. The MicroArray mounts and connects just like a
standard SCSI disk drive typically found in these systems.

Service/Availability

IBM on-site service is available 24-hours, 7-days nationwide for other CORE
products, and will soon be available for the MicroArray subsystem.

The MicroArray will be available to customers for evaluations in early
July, with general availability in late July through distributors,
resellers, OEMs, and international distribution channels.

Core International
7171 North Federal Highway, Boca Raton, FL 33487
407-997-6055

  +---------------------------------------------------------------+
  |   From the America Online New Product Information Services    |
  +===============================================================+
  | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR |
  | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data  |
  | provided by the above mentioned company. For additional info, |
  | contact the company at the address or phone# indicated above. |
  |    All submissions for this service should be addressed to    |
  |   BAKER ENTERPRISES, 20 Ferro Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 U.S.A.  |
  +---------------------------------------------------------------+
