Supports all VTrak storage subsystems (4Gbps 8Gbps Fibre Channel) Massive storage capacity for backing up creative projects and digital librariesĮnables Fibre Channel connectivity on systems with a Thunderbolt 2 portĭual 20Gbps Thunderbolt 2 ports with DisplayPort and device daisy-chain support
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Portable hardware RAID protection for offsite shoots
Hot-swappable drive bays for effortless drive access and serviceability Supports simultaneous streaming, editing, and backup of 4K videoĭual Thunderbolt ports for daisy chaining Supports maximum throughput allowed by Thunderbolt 2 interface Below are the highlights for the new devices. The SANLink2 will be available starting in December, again via the Apple store. The Pegasus2 R6 is available with either 2TB (12TB total) or 3TB (18TB total) hard drives, while the R8 will ship with 3TB (24TB total) and 4TB (32TB total) drives. The Pegasus2 R4 is the entry-level solution with four 2TB hard drives. Pricing has not been revealed, but the new Pegasus2 products will be available at the Apple store in November and will either replace or augment the existing Promise Thunderbolt offerings. the Promise VTrak x30).Īll of the Pegasus2 products support RAID 5. This allows the use of the new Thunderbolt-enabled systems with existing high-speed Fiber Channel SANs (e.g. Interesting to note is that Promise also has their SANLink2 product, which is a portable bridge with dual 8Gbps Fibre Channel ports and dual 20Gbps Thunderbolt 2 ports. That means aggregate bandwidth for a single Thunderbolt controller remains unchanged, but if you’re primarily reading or writing you effectively double your transfer rate. Of note is that all of the current solutions continue to use hard drives for storage the target is primarily video and image editing workflows where large amounts of portable storage are important as opposed to ultra-high-speed external storage using SSDs – specific mention of 3D and 4K video is made, and raw 4K video can chew through storage at an alarming rate (up to 15Gbps).Īs discussed previously, Thunderbolt 2 effectively doubles the transfer rate of Thunderbolt, up to 20Gbps it does this by bonding two 10Gbps channels into a single channel. These range from a 4-bay enclosure (R4) up to an 8-bay enclosure (R8), with the Pegasus2 R8 the Pegasus2 is also available in a 6-bay (R6) variant. Today, Promise is formally announcing four upcoming Thunderbolt 2 products. Unfortunately, the Pegasus RAID storage solution won't be around too soon, as it will only arrive on the market around Q2, 2011, for a yet undisclosed price point.We’ve seen Thunderbolt products from Promise before, and we’ve even heard about some of their upcoming Thuderbolt 2 offerings. but also 12 times faster than FireWire 800, one of the preferred connectivity options for all Apple systems.Īdditionally, since it will come packed with two Thunderbolt ports, the Pegasus will enable users to daisy-chain multiple Pegasus enclosures, letting them create storage behemoths with capacities of up to 72TB of data. Naturally, given the fact that they'll come equipped with the brand-new Thunderbolt tech, the new RAID enclosures will be able to provide some very high data transfer capabilities, of up to 800 MB/s, which makes them not only 20 times faster than USB 2.0. Plus, since Apple's notebooks are the first to incorporate this technology, Pegasus will also fully support the Time Machine feature.
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Now that the Thunderbolt technology has been officially outed, we're already starting to see a couple of products featuring this new ultra-fast interface being revealed, one of the latest we've come across being the Pegasus RAID solution from Promise.Īlthough Thunderbolt has only been implemented on the 2011 MacBook Pro systems for the time being, things will apparently look a lot different on the future, when more and more computer manufacturers will adopt this high-speed tech.Īnd in order to have a product ready when that time arrives, Promise has revealed their Pegasus external RAID enclosure, that will be available in two different versions, featuring either 4 bays or 6 bays, and capable of providing up to a whopping 12TB of storage.įurthermore, the company points out that that the storage system will support some of the most commonly-encountered RAID modes, including 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60, that will manage to match just about any user's specific requirements.
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