Adaptec Selected for Network Products Guide 2009 Product Innovation Award

Adaptec RAID 52445 Unified Serial(R) (SATA/SAS) Controller Wins in the Storage
Hardware Category

MILPITAS, Calif., May 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Adaptec, Inc. (Nasdaq:
ADPT), a global leader in storage solutions, announced today that Network
Products Guide, an industry leading publication on information technologies
and solutions has named the Adaptec RAID 52445 Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID
controller a winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Awards. This annual award
recognizes and honors vendors from all over the world with innovative and
ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes
and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information
technology.

Selected from the industry's leading storage products, the Adaptec RAID 52445
controller offers the industry's first 28-port connectivity with both internal
and external ports for high I/O performance up to five times faster than
competitors. Designed to deliver the industry's most cost-effective solution
for increasing data storage access and scalability, the Adaptec RAID 52445
allows up to 256 SATA or SAS drives to be connected to a single system
providing more than 200TB of storage capacity. This efficient PCIe interface
controller is designed for a wide range of storage-critical,
bandwidth-intensive applications such as Web hosting, digital video
surveillance, medical imaging and communications. In addition, the Adaptec
RAID 52445 also features Adaptec Intelligent Power Management - the ability to
choose from three levels of disk drive power modes: 1) Normal operation - full
power, full RPM (revolutions per minute), 2) Standby - low-power mode spins
disks at lower RPM, and 3) Power-off - disks not spinning. This innovative
feature allows system OEMs, integrators and IT managers to easily
custom-configure storage systems to reduce power and cooling energy
consumption by up to 70 percent without sacrificing performance. To read more
about this product innovation, please visit
www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations.

"Innovation is clearly an important factor for greater success and has the
most impact on staying competitive," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of
Network Products Guide. "Innovative products such as the Adaptec RAID 52445
Unified Serial RAID controller are bringing improvements in data storage
access, scalability, and reliability to enterprise-class applications, while
at the same time increasing energy efficiency and providing energy cost
savings."

"Network Products Guide's recognition of the Adaptec RAID 52445 controller
underscores Adaptec's commitment to delivering IT managers and system builders
with best-in-class data storage products that support their environmental and
'green' initiatives," said Scott Cleland, director of marketing, Adaptec.
"Meeting and exceeding the data storage needs of our OEM, channel and system
integrator customers and ecosystem partners is always our top priority, and we
will continue to provide solutions that are ground-breaking."

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About Adaptec
Adaptec provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move, manage, and
protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec's software and
hardware-based solutions are delivered through leading channel partners and
Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to provide storage connectivity, data
protection, and networked storage to enterprises, government organizations,
medium and small businesses worldwide. More information is available at
www.adaptec.com.

Adaptec is a registered trademark and Unified Serial is a trademark in the
United States and other countries. Other company names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective owners. Adaptec disclaims any and
all rights in these trademarks.

Contact:
Sara Lee
Walt & Company for Adaptec
408-369-7200 ex. 2980
slee@walt.com

SOURCE Adaptec, Inc.

Sara Lee of Walt & Company, +1-408-369-7200, ext. 2980, slee@walt.com, for
Adaptec, Inc.