FWB Joins RAID Advisory Board

San Francisco, CA - November 4, 1994 FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the Hammer
brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced its
membership in the RAID Advisory Board.

The RAID Advisory Board, based in St. Peter Minnesota, is an association of
manufacturers and consumers of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
related products and other organizations with an interest in RAID
technology. The association's goal is to foster the orderly development
and promotion of RAID technology and the introduction of RAID related
products into the computer market.

"FWB is pleased to join the RAID Advisory Board", commented Eric Herzog,
FWB's Vice President of Marketing. "The RAID Advisory Board's goals for
RAID products and technologies mirror those of FWB. As the leader in high
performance disk array technology for the Macintosh and PowerMacintosh
environments, FWB's membership in the RAID Advisory Board will further the
development and enhancement of RAID and related storage technologies on
the Macintosh and Power Macintosh platforms".

FWB manufactures a complete lineup of RAID subsystems and software for the
Macintosh and Power Macintosh. FWB has recently introduced the
SledgeHammer-FT, which offers RAID 5 fault-tolerance for near-zero system
downtime and maximum data reliability. FWB's award-winning SledgeHammer
family of disk arrays also includes SledgeHammer for NuBus, SledgeHammer
Wide and SledgeHammer II products, which deliver top RAID performance to
users of digital video, color prepress, multimedia and network
applications. The most powerful RAID software solutions for Macintosh and
Power Macintosh platforms are available with FWB's RAID ToolKit and RAID
ToolKit-JackHammer.

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, PC WEEK, PC Magazine, and BYTE. FWB's
Permium Service has won the "Best Technical Support" award from The
Macintosh Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine has ranked FWB on the Inc.
500 list of fastest growing privately held companies for 1993 and 1994.

FWB, Inc.
2040 Polk Street, Suite 215
San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
415-474-8055,  fax 415-775-2125

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