Just to the left of this port – right at the top – is where the magic happens: The two Mini Display port shaped Thunderbolt ports.
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A serial port is also present for internal debugging and rumour has it, UPS support will be added via this port in a later service release. Beyond the breathing panel, the rear features a large drive cooling fan, a small power supply fan and a standard three prong power connector. To the left of the drive bays is a black plastic panel which houses the on/off button as well as two purple glowing Thunderbolt LEDs.Ībove the drive bays is a drive bay sized perforated breathing panel which is matched by an even larger one on the back of the unit. Good old red however, is still used to to show an error. To show nominal operation, blue is the new green. While we didn’t find anything inherently wrong with the old pull system employed in previous Promise NAS/DAS units, this new system’s two step process, coupled with the mostly aluminium construction of the drive bays, just feels like it means business.Įxternally, each drive bay has two LED indicators used to denote status and activity. Each drive bay is held in place securely by a sturdy push down to unlock, then pull system. And instead of requiring multiple Thunderbolt ports for video and storage, Thunderbolt devices can be easily daisy chained to allow up to seven devices (monitors, storage, etc.) to use the same origin port.Īesthetically, the general design of the R6 is somewhat of a mash of the old Promise SmartStor DS4600 we reviewed a few years back, and Apple’s current MacBook Pro/Mac Mini unibody devices.ĭominating the front of the unit are six horizontally set drive bays. Via its Mini DisplayPort form factor, Thunderbolt is able to feed video to external monitors.
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Interestingly, Thunderbolt’s improvements over other transfer technologies are more than a matter of pure transfer speed. While eSATA’s 6Gbps and USB 3.0’s 5Gbps speeds dwarf the common USB 2.0 standard of 480MBps, Thunderbolt’s theoretical maximum of 10Gbps blows everything out of the water.ĭespite the “theoretical” qualifier, the R6 has plenty of headroom for Thunderbolt to prove itself in the real world – More on this later. And the amazing part is that the actual storage space isn’t the R6’s biggest draw! Utilizing Intel’s Thunderbolt technology, Promise Technologies delivers all those Terabytes at blazing fast speeds.ĭeveloped by Intel and brought to market by Apple, Thunderbolt sits atop the current crop of consumer grade high speed hard drive transfer technologies. Some fifteen years on, the Pegasus R6 provides home users with 12 Terabytes of directly attached RAID storage.
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I still remember purchasing my first computer in the mid 1990s with its massive 400MB hard disk drive.