Excellent Review of Hard Disk ToolKit 3.0 in AprilIssue of MacAddict Magazine.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1999--

Current Issue of MacAddict Rated the Latest Version of Hard

Disk ToolKit as "Freakin' Awesome" -- the Highest Rating

Available from MacAddict Magazine

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HDT 3.0 was rated by the April issue of MacAddict as "Freakin' Awesome," the highest rating available from the Mac community's most acclaimed magazine.

One of the most noticeable features of the latest version of Hard Disk ToolKit is the improved interface. David Reynolds, the reviewer, called Hard Disk ToolKit's new tabbed interface as "plenty easy to navigate."

This new streamlined interface allows users to switch between different views and functions such as physical devices, logical volumes, RAID creation, and benchmarking with a single click. The easy-to-use drag and drop interface also allow users to create arrays, apply encryption, or update the driver simply by dragging a selected drive to the appropriate icons.

Also mentioned favorably by the reviewer are the exciting RAID features. Formerly a separate $299 package, RAID ToolKit is now part of Hard Disk ToolKit. With Hard Disk ToolKit's RAID functionality, a user can combine free space from two or more devices to create one high-performance storage volume for greater capacity, stronger security, or increased speed.

While no benchmark results were published by MacAddict Magazine, a user can expect the performance of a Level-0 RAID to be at least 80% better than that of a similar single drive.

David also brought up one of HDT 3.0's hot new features -- the ability to make Adobe Photoshop scratch partitions. By reserving a special partition on the outer tracks of the hard disk, one can expect a noticeable boost in Photoshop performance over that of a single volume drive. The custom scratch partition can also be used for other disk intensive applications such as Adobe Premiere and Fractal Design Painter.

David, who is the Editor-in-Chief of MacAddict Magazine summed it up best in his conclusion, "This comprehensive utility suite covers all things related to your hard drive, including RAID, SCSI, IDE, removable volumes, troubleshooting tools, tweaking, and diagnostics. It's a valuable addition to any Mac geek's software library."

Although not mentioned in the review, some exciting features such as dynamic partition resizing, better algorithms in data encryption, better Iomega removable support, FWB Configure's new IDE and SCSI-3 support, and improved SCSI Disk Mode support also make the latest version of HDT a default choice for users looking for a disk management package.

While many companies would ponder the success of a good review of their products, FWB is determined to push the limits of disk storage utility on the next generation of Hard Disk ToolKit even further. With the help of many Mac users, FWB has just completed its first product survey.

More than 1,500 Mac users participated in a poll regarding Hard Disk ToolKit and future storage trends. The feedback they provided was invaluable. Even though the next generation of Hard Disk ToolKit is still on the drawing board, FWB is confident that it will be a substantial leap over the current one.

FWB publishes Hard Disk ToolKit(TM), Hard Disk ToolKitoPersonal Edition(TM), and CD-ROM ToolKit(TM). FWB's products are consistently rated the best in their class by publications including MacWEEK, MacUser, Mac Addict, Macworld, AV Video Magazine, PC Magazine, and BYTE.