FWB Announces the SledgeHammer-VS

High Performance Video Server Targets Demanding Digital Artists

Menlo Park, March 27, 1995. FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the award-winning
Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced
the SledgeHammer-VS--a high performance, high capacity, Fast & Wide SCSI-2
RAID solution providing ultimate digital video and color publishing
performance.

Engineered to meet the needs of today's sophisticated digital video and
color publishing applications, FWB's SledgeHammer-VS is the latest
addition to FWB's AV Video Magazine 1995 Platinum Award winning
SledgeHammer Wide family. Designed to provide maximum system throughput,
the SledgeHammer-VS utilizes the latest in RAID (Redundant Array of
Independent Disks) technology to provide the highest performance storage
available on the Power Macintosh or Macintosh platform. FWB's powerful
RAID implementation of the SledgeHammer-VS delivers video compression
ratios as low as 4: 1 and unmatched PhotoShop performance.

The SledgeHammer-VS is fully compatible with both Power Macintosh and
Macintosh platforms, optimized for SCSI Manager 4.3, and fully QuickTime
2.0 compliant. With the coming of the PCI based Power Macintosh and FWB's
PCI SCSI JackHammer, the SledgeHammer-VS is also fully upgradable to the
newest high performance Power Macintosh platform which is expected to
support the industry standard PCI bus.

The SledgeHammer-VS is composed of seven Fast & Wide SCSI-2 hard disk
drives, FWB's award winning SCSI JackHammer NuBus Accelerator, and an
integrated tape drive for system back-up. Utilizing FWB's industry
acclaimed RAID ToolKit, data is striped across all the drives in the
array, while the JackHammer provides the high speed bandwidth for
subsystem I/O. Capable of RAID levels 0 or 1, the SledgeHammer-VS provides
the flexibility needed when configuring the right disk array solution for
any environment. The SledgeHammer-VS is fully compatible with the leading
NuBus digital video boards, such as TrueVision's Targa2000, Data
Translations' Media 100 and Radius' VideoVision Studio, in addition to all
leading color publishing applications.

Available in 14.3 and 28.7GB capacities, each SledgeHammer-VS provides
average seek times as fast as 2.25 ms. and burst data transfer rates of up
to 20 MB/sec. Each drive in the array has an on-board cache of 1MB and a
spindle speed of 7200 RPM. Every SledgeHammer-VS is configured with an
integrated hammerDAT8000 and MacUser Eddy award winning Retrospect
software to allow swift backup. Both DDS and DDS-2 compatible, the DAT
drive achieves speeds of up to 44 MB/minute.

The VS subsystem includes FWB's 1993 MacUser Eddy Award Finalist SCSI
JackHammer NuBus accelerator, industry acclaimed RAID Toolkit, one 120
meter 8GB DAT cartridge and cleaning kit, plus all required cabling,
active termination and documentation. The VS subsystem is covered by FWB's
PremiumService 3-year warranty, while disk drives are covered for 5 years.
Available as an external tabletop or 19" rack mountable subsystem, FWB
expects to ship the VS beginning June, 1995 with a Manufacturers'
Suggested retail Price of $21,399 for 14.3GB and $28,399 for 28.7GB. FWB
will be highlighting the SledgeHammer-VS at NAB, Booth 1812, April 10-13,
in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products
specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook,
the Apple Workgroup Server 95 and the Power Macintosh. FWB products
include SledgcHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and
HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk optical and removable drives; HammerTape
and HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer SCSI-2
accelerator board. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit,
Hard Disk ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CDROM
ToolKit accelerator software for CD-ROM drives. FWB's products have been
consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as
MacWEEK, MacUser, Macworld, AV Video Magazine, PC Magazine, and BYTE.
FWB's PremiumService has won the "Best Technical Support" award from The
Macintosh Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine ranked FWB on the Inc. 500
list of fastest growing privately held companies in both 1993 and 1994.

FWB Inc
1555 Adams Dr
Menlo Park, CA 94025
415-325-4FWB,  fax 415-833-4657
AOL: FWBINC
AppleLink: FWB
CIS: 71320,1034
eWORLD: FWB.INC

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