SledgeHammers Named as Product of the Year by AV Video Magazine
FWB Arrays Recognized as Best Storage for Digital Video

San Francisco, February 28, 1995. FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the award
winning Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products, today
announced AV Video Magazine's selection of their SledgeHammer Wide and
SledgeHammer II disk arrays as winners of the 1994 Platinum Award for New
Age Video Mass Storage.

FWB's high capacity, high performance RAID subsystems are optimized for
digital video. The SledgeHammer family fully supports such QuickTime based
editing systems as Radius' VideoVision Studio, Telecast, Targa 2000, the
Media100 from Data Translations and more. The Studio Array that Radius
currently ships is a private label version of FWB's SledgeHammer4100FMF
Wide. Data Translations also recommends FWB arrays for use with its High
Data Rate Option.

All FWB mass storage products are completely System 7.5 compliant and
optimized for SCSI Manager 4.3. In addition to supporting all Macintosh
and Power Macintosh families FWB will also offer PCI based Power Macintosh
arrays optimized for digital video when Apple releases PCI products later
this year.

The AV Video Platinum Award represents innovation in technology. This
year's competition included 71 finalists in 14 categories. The March issue
of AV Video Magazine includes results of the competition.

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 SledgeHammer 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 CD-ROM
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

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