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February 26th, 2009

SoftRAID, LLC announces the release and immediate shipment of SoftRAID 3.6.8.

Mill Valley, CA

SoftRAID 3.6.8 is a minor update to the popular SoftRAID 3.6.7 RAID software and disk management application.

SoftRAID 3.6.8 fixes several minor bugs, including working around a Mac OS X issue which can cause volume to become unmountable. SoftRAID 3.6.8 also addresses an issue when converting volumes to AppleRAID format. The release notes include a comprehensive list of fixes with 3.6.8.

With this release, SoftRAID, LLC continues to deliver the best software RAID solution for the Mac. "Starting late last year, we discovered a bug in Mac OS X code which could cause volume headers to become corrupted. While only a few of our users have been affected by this bug, we felt it necessary prevent it from happening. We believe this bug is attributable to a bug in the Leopard kernel on Intel Macs and are currently working with Apple engineers to further characterize and isolate it.", said Tim Standing, Vice President of Engineering. "While we wait for a fix from Apple, we decided to release a version of SoftRAID which prevents users from being affected by this bug. SoftRAID has always maintained two copies of crucial on disk data structures which maintain the state of each SoftRAID volume. With version 3.6.8, we are now much more aggressive about validating the data in the primary data structure and if we find any data corruption in it, we now use the backup copy of the data. This change enables version 3.6.8 to protect our users from being affected by the rare occurences of this bug."

SoftRAID continues to be the most cost effective method and reliable method of providing both real-time and off-site backup for busy professionals, small businesses and server administrators. No other backup solution combines blazing fast backups with the ability to seamlessly recover from hardware failures without having to restore from backup media. In addition, SoftRAID users don't have to worry about losing file attribute metadata or the data corruption issues which plague other solutions like TimeMachine.

For more information about SoftRAID 3.6.8 or information about our upcoming release of SoftRAID version 4.0 or for review copies, contact us at sales@softraid.com.

The SoftRAID 3.6.8 release is a free electronic upgrade to all 3.x owners. The SoftRAID 3.6.8 electronic download is $129 and the retail CD is $149, both available from the SoftRAID website and retail outlets worldwide.

About SoftRAID, LLC.

SoftRAID, LLC is headquartered in Mill Valley, California, and been developing high quality applications for Mac OS for over 10 years.