Castlewood To Unveil ORB, First "MR" Technology Removable Media Drive, At Comdex.

PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 1997--

Magnetoresistive technology offers radical improvements in disk

capacity, performance, reliability and pricing

Castlewood Systems, Inc., today announced it will exhibit the world's first removable media hard drive to use new magnetoresistive (MR) head technology at the Fall Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas.

The Castlewood MR product, named ORB, uses 3-1/2" removable media with a capacity of 2.16 GB, more than any other product in its category. At an impressive 12.2 megabytes per second maximum sustained data transfer rate--the fastest transfer stimated mean-time-between-failure rating 50 pies, optical DVD and tape.

These capabilidisks have a suggested retail price of just $29blishing, multimedia presentations, and music anionall y, Castlewood will provide "ORB-it" Tools,ndard for thoroughness, simplicity and security.

"I have built my reputation and my businesses on the cornerstone of leading-edge technology," says Syed Iftikar,

"We've interviewed 1,000 consumers and haORB represents the beginning of an industry-wide shift to MR technology, as other companies embrace the significant benefits. So customers who buy an MR removable medistlewood products well into the next milleniumenabled. Currently, Castlewood is working with Vobis, a major European retailer, on PC applications, and with consumer electronics company Sanyo on a "VCR" using the Og rapidly to integrate Castlewood's ORB drive technology into strategic products," says Tatsuo Tanaka, senio, which will be featured at Comdex 97. It is four versions of ORB: internal IDE, external parallel port, internal SCSI and external SCSI. Various configurations are compatible with different operating systems, including DOS, Windows 3.X/95/NT and Macintosh. The two external configurations will carry a suggested retail price of $199.95. Individual 2.16 GB disks have a retail price of $29.95. The IDE and parallel port configurations will be available shortly. The SCSI versions will be available in the first quarter of next year.

"The growing adoption of digital video on the PC platform has increased the demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage mediums," says Clint Chao, director, PC Segment, for C-Cube Microsystems. "Castlewood's ORB-it offers a high-density, magnetic-based storage medium that complements C-Cube's MVP format, providing the ideal video capture/storage solution for today's cost-sensitive consumers." Castlewood Systems, Inc. is a privately-held company based in Pleasanton, Calif.

Directions Public Relations, Princeton