STEC's SlimSATA and SATA-CF Products Deliver SSD Performance
    in Small Industry Standard Form Factors for a Wide Range of
      Networking, Industrial and Other Embedded Applications

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 2, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc.
(Nasdaq:STEC) today announces at Embedded World 2010 that it is
currently sampling SlimSATA and SATA-CF SSDs, STEC's newest line of
solid-state drives ("SSDs") for the embedded markets. STEC's family of
embedded SSDs are ideal for applications such as single board computers
and embedded/industrial PCs used in a wide variety of industries
including networking and telecom, manufacturing, automotive and
medical. Other applications such as storage virtualization, server
blade management, and storage caching are also emerging in the
Enterprise space.

In today's embedded markets, system builders are relying less on
traditional Parallel ATA (PATA) interface technology within their
embedded system designs and are trending towards other more robust
storage interface alternatives such as Serial ATA (SATA). STEC embedded
SSDs address this trend with a form factor half the size of a mobile
hard disk drive (HDD), typically measuring 2.5 in. Initially offered in
capacities of up to 64GB with industrial range temperatures, STEC's
Embedded SSDs offer superior random read performance of 15,000 IOPS and
6,000 IOPS Random Writes and transfer rates of up to 135MB/s reads and
130MB/s writes. Because these SSDs deliver solid performance in small
packages, system designers are afforded greater design flexibility and
reduced cost of ownership when compared to existing HDD technologies.

"Increasing demand for high-performance and high-reliability SSDs
within the embedded markets is a trend we are beginning to see and on
which we have put ourselves in a position to capitalize," said Manouch
Moshayedi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of STEC. "The
introduction of our new lines of small form factor SSDs for embedded
applications is in line with our strategy to help proliferate the use
of SSDs across a broad range of applications. Just as we have helped to
usher in the use of SSDs in the high-end Enterprise market, we intend
to bring the latest SSD advancements to our customers in the embedded
community, many of whom have been long-time STEC partners."

For more information regarding this announcement and other important
SSD topics, please visit the company's web site at
www.stec-inc.com/ssd/technology.

About STEC

STEC, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Ana, California and offices
around the globe, designs, manufactures and markets high performance
storage solutions. The company's product portfolio includes the
industry's broadest SSD offerings. For more information, visit the
company's web site at http://www.stec-inc.com

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uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements concerning
trends of system builders, demand for STEC's SSD products and the
capabilities and performance of STEC's SSD products. Such
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CONTACT:  STEC, Inc.
          Mitch Gellman, Vice President of Investor Relations
          (949) 260-8328
          ir@stec-inc.com