Artecon 2440 Impala Drive Box 9000, Dept. 5500 Carlsbad, CA 92008-0993 Phone 619-931-5500 FAX 619-931-5527 Telex 516941 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Lorraine Iverson cooper/iverson/marketing 619-467-9112 Dana Kammersgard Artecon 619-931-5500 HIGH CAPACITY INTERNAL DISK DRIVE KITS FOR SPARCSTATIONS AND 3/80'S NOW AVAILABLE FROM ARTECON Carlsbad, CA, February 5, l990.....Artecon today announced a 318 MByte, 3-1/2 inch, internal disk drive kit for Sun 4/60 and 3/80 workstations. This is the highest formatted capacity disk subsystem available for the Sun's new desktop systems. Artecon also announced a 20G MByte (formatted) drive kit for the same workstations. "Almost since the first SparcStation shipped, Sun customers have been looking for more storage than is available from Sun," said Dana Kammersgard, Artecon's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "What we now offer is double and triple the capacity that is inside the Sun box. Beyond their high capacities, these disks offer the highest performance we've seen in a 3-1/2 inch form factor." The 318 MB subsystem has an average seek time of 12.5 milliseconds and a burst transfer rate of 4.0 MB per second. The 200 MB drive has an average seek time of 16 ms. and a burst transfer rate of 4.8 MB per second. Artecon's 3-1/2 inch disk kits include mounting brackets, all required cabling and an installation manual. Also included is a 1/4 inch support tape that provides full Sun O/S support for the the two high capacity drives to reformat, relabel and repartition the drivers in the field if necessary. Artecon is the leading vendor of aftermarket products for Sun workstations. Their product line lncludes external storage and backup subsystems, erasable optical drives, removable subsystems, ethernet terminal servers, workstation extenders, and other add-ons and peripherals. For more information contact: Artecon, 2440 Impala Drive, Box 9000, Dept. 5500, Carlsbad, CA 92008, 619-931-5500