FWB Ships hammerDLT 20G

High-Performance, High-Capacity DLT Drive for Macintosh & PowerMacintosh

Offers Compressed Capacity of up to 40GB on a Single Tape

Menlo Park, May 4. FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the award-winning Hammer
brand of high-performance mass storage products, today began shipping the
hammerDLT 20G, the newest member of its family of HammerDLT tape
subsystems.

HammerDLT (Digital Linear Tape) technology increases data transfer rates by
writing data to parallel tracks on half-inch tape. This allows users of
large files to expect transfer rates of over 75 MB-per-minute and
capacities of 20GB (native) on a single tape. The hammerDLT 20G is an
excellent solution for high-end multimedia or graphics users due to its
large capacity and fast transfer rate. It also provides state-of-the-art
error detection and correction for excellent reliability . The hammerDLT
20G also reads and writes to 10GB tape cartridges as well.

"No tape subsystems offer better performance for Macintosh power users than
HammerDLT drives," according to Fred Swan, senior product marketing
manager at FWB. "We have seen backup speeds as high as 147 MB/minute on a
PowerMac 8100 from a single hard drive through the native SCSI bus," added
Swan. "That stunning throughput, coupled with a compressed capacity up to
40GB on one tape makes this drive an amazing tool for graphic artists,
digital videographers, audio engineers and anyone else requiring
high-capacity workstation backup. FWB is pleased to be partnering with
Quantum(l) to bring this important enabling technology to market."

The hammerDLT is based on the Quantum DLT4000 digital linear tape drive. In
addition to the speed and capacity benefits, this technology offers
tremendous reliability advantages. Tape and head wear are much lower than
competitive systems, resulting in near-zero downtime and very reasonable
cost-of-ownership. It can use either 1,100-ft. (10GB native) or 1,700-ft.
120GB native media for broad compatibility and cost-effective archiving.

"This alliance with FWB reinforces Quantum's commitment to the growing
high-end multimedia and video production markets for the Macintosh," said
Gina Bornino, vice president, specialty storage products group, Quantum
Corporation. "The DLT4000, with its superior transfer rate and leading
capacity and reliability, is an ideal fit for FWB's award-winning line of
storage products. We're pleased FWB has selected DLT to be a part of it's
solution."

The hammerDLT 20G retails for $7,599. Each hammerDLT 20G ships with Dantz
Development's Retrospect and DLT Driver, one 20GB tape, all necessary
cables and active termination, and is covered by FWB's two-year
PremiumService warranty. Extra 20GB cartridges are sold separately for
$189 while 10GB cartridges are $79. HammerDLT drives are compatible with
FWB's 1993 MacUser Eddy Award Finalist Fast and Wide SCSI-2 JackHammer for
NuBus and FWB's forthcoming PCI SCSI JackHammer.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has developed storage products for the Macintosh
platform, including the Apple PowerBook, Apple Workgroup Servers and Power
Macintosh. FWB products include SledgeHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer,
Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk optical and
removable drives; HammerDLT and HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the
SCSI JackHammer Fast and Wide SCSI-2 accelerator board. FWB publishes RAID
ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit-Personal Edition disk
management software, and CD-ROM ToolKit accelerator software for CDROM
drives. FWB's products have been rated best in class by MacWEEK, MacUser,
MacWorld, PC WEEK, PC Magazine, AV Video and others. FWB's PremiumService
has won The Macintosh Consultants Network "Best Technical Support" award .
FWB was on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately-held companies
in 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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