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Promise expects Q2 release for Thunderbolt RAID boxes

By | February 24, 2011, 9:04pm PST

Summary: Storage vendor Promise Technology late Thursday announced it will ship in the second quarter 4-bay and 6-bay Pegasus R series RAID systems supporting the new Thunderbolt bus used on the new Apple MacBook Pro line.

Storage vendor Promise Technology late Thursday announced it will ship in the second quarter 4-bay and 6-bay Pegasus R series RAID systems supporting the new Thunderbolt bus used on the new Apple MacBook Pro line.

The small form-factor systems are aimed at professional graphic arts and digital media applications. According to the company, the line offers formatted capacities from 2.7TB to 9.7TB, and can deliver a sustained data transfer rate up to 800MB per second.

The 6-bay Pegasus is shown on Apple’s Thunderbolt technology page.

The Pegasus R4 supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10; the Pegasus R6 adds RAID levels 50 and 60. Both units support Apple Time Machine.

Thunderbolt technology offers amazing flexibility for connectivity to high-performance peripherals like Pegasus and high-resolution displays. Thunderbolt technology is capable of delivering a mind boggling two channels of 10 Gb/s per port of bandwidth, achieving a level of performance previously reserved for workstation-class peripherals and RAID enclosures. Connect multiple Pegasus enclosures to one another for additional storage up to 72 TB, or connect a high-resolution display to Pegasus for the ultimate in convenience.

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scH4MMER 25th Feb 2011
Supporting the PCIe & DisplayPort protocols was a brilliant move by Apple. Now they can push this new connector into the market without having to wait for a critical mass of supporting peripherals, giving them a big head start. We'll see how long PC makers wait before jumping on-board
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james347 25th Feb 2011
...the Hard Drives out there can not keep up with all of this bandwidth. Let's see some real Hard Drive Speeds and then focus on all this fancy smancy I/O Ports.
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RE: Promise expects Q2 release for Thunderbolt RAID boxes
dheady@... 25th Feb 2011
With the advent of Thunderbolt we now have a 'real' information superhighway. Apple has once again pioneered and helped develop watershed technology. Aside from inventing the original 'consumer' personal computer with the Apple II they have brought to mass markets:
1. Graphical User Interfaces (Macintosh)
2. 3.5 inch floppy drives
3. First usable network (LocalTalk)
4. First complete 'Office' system with the Laserwriter
5. Desktop publishing (see #4)
6. PDA (Newton)
7. MP3 player (iPod)
8. Laptop design
9. Fonts (see #5)
10. Smart Phones (iPhone)
11. Tablets (iPad)

Now Thunderbolt with unheard of flexibility and ease of use for such bandwidth. Certainly all of the above were not 'original' with Apple though Apple was the company that early on set the standards and popularized these technologies. Have they always been the best? Arguably yes. Their record of customer service and quality are outstanding for any industry. Do Apple products break and fail? Of course they do, but in such low volumes as to give Apple a perennial JD Powers excellence awards. Has Apple made some stinkers? Of course. The Newton was way ahead of its time, but has been fulfilled in the current crop of iPhones and iPod Touches. Sometimes the ideas are ahead of the available technology.
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RE: Promise expects Q2 release for Thunderbolt RAID boxes
aep528 Updated - 25th Feb 2011
I'm having trouble understanding why the first devices are RAID arrays, when the only systems that support them are LAPTOPS! The only cable ever connected to my laptops is the power cord. Everything else is done via the wireless network, including storage.
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RE: Promise expects Q2 release for Thunderbolt RAID boxes
ALISON SMOCK 14th Mar 2011
@aep528
Because not everyone has the same requirements as you? I'm pretty stoked about the exact combination of the new MBP and a big fast honkin RAID box. I use my laptop with an octopus-worth of cables hanging out of it when at home (DVI for big desktop monitor, Ethernet because GigE is waaaaay faster than WiFi, and a pile of USB for this-n-that) so one more cable is no problem... and wait, it's not even one more cable to plug in! Fast local storage for my festering pile of media sounds very good to me.

Also, I would think we can count on the rest of Apple's product line getting TBolt connectors as the respective product lines are revved.
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