Description
Promise Pegasus R4 is the first four-bay high-performance hardware RAID solutions designed to unleash the raw power of Thunderbolt. Pegasus R4 features four 1 TB 7200-rpm hard drives in a compact hardware RAID enclosure with Thunderbolt connectivity. Delivering over 500 Mbps of disk performance, Pegasus is compatible with Mac systems with Thunderbolt and required Thunderbolt cable.
Thunderbolt technology is a high-speed, dual-protocol I/O technology designed for performance, simplicity, and flexibility. Capable of delivering a blistering two channels of bi-directional 10 Gbps per port of performance, Thunderbolt technology combines PCI Express and Display port into an interface using a single cable for connectivity to devices. Thunderbolt technology was developed by Intel and brought to market with technical collaboration from Apple.
Pegasus R4 is ideal for creative pro workstations, small servers, power users, and consumers who desire stylish high-capacity external storage with high performance and enterprise level data protection. Pegasus R4 is capable of delivering over 500 Mbps of bandwidth that is 10 times faster than USB 2.0.
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Easy to use management software
Pegasus R4 comes preconfigured out of the box. Simply unpack, connect the power cable, connect the Thunderbolt cable to the Thunderbolt port on your computer and you're ready to store music, photos, videos, and documents or ingest and edit production video. -
Storage for the digital home
With two channels of bi-directional 10 Gbps performance Thunderbolt allows you to back up your computer while editing the video of your summer vacation and listening to an iTunes playlist. Fast, safe, and reliable external storage is essential to protect your music, photos, videos, and other valuable data. Pegasus R4 provides massive storage space and fast performance for popular applications such as iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, Photoshop, and media center applications. -
Blistering performance and unparalleled flexibility
With over 500 Mbps of performance Pegasus R4 with Thunderbolt delivers a massive and unprecedented leap in raw power and performance for amateur professionals, audio engineers, photographers, and video post production engineers. Final Cut professionals can ingest, edit, and playback multiple streams of uncompressed HD 10-bit and 12-bit video while protecting valuable workflows, audio sessions, and other creative media content with Promise's enterprise level RAID 6 engine featuring mature error-handling schemes for the ultimate in data protection. -
Hardware RAID protection for small business
Protect your valuable business data with a reliable hardware RAID solution. You can use Pegasus R4 as large storage for a desktop system or as external storage solution for a small server. With 3 TB of storage in RAID 5, you'll have the capacity you need for data and backups with the protection of hardware RAID. -
Cost-effective expandable storage for home use
In today's digital world, you consistently acquire and amass large amounts of personal digital media using smart phones and digital cameras, in addition to downloadable digital media acquired through online stores such as iTunes. The Pegasus R4 can protect all these memories meant to last a lifetime from single drive failures, at the same time it's providing data protection, high availability, and high reliability. -
Flexible backup solution
Connect Pegasus R4 to your Mac for use with time machine to back up your critical system files, applications, data files, music, pictures, and videos. -
Ultra-quiet and eco-smart
Pegasus R4 is RoHS compliant. In simple terms Pegasus R4 is eco-friendly, keeping harmful lead out of the environment and the delicate ecosystems. Sporting a enclosure design, an 80 plus power supply, and active fan management, system noise is never an issue - making Pegasus R4 ideal for desktop, small office environments and or any room in the house.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- Promise Pegasus R4 - hard drive array
- Device Type
- Hard drive array
- Total Array Capacity
- 8 TB
- Max Supported Capacity
- 8 TB
- Interface
- Thunderbolt
- Installed Devices / Modules Qty
- 4 (installed) / 4 (max)
- Supported Drives
- SATA-600
- Storage Controller
- RAID (SATA 6Gb/s) - RAID RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
- Hard Drive
- 4 x 2 TB HDD - hot-swap
- OS Required
- Apple MacOS X 10.6.8 or later
- Power
- AC 120/230 V - 50/60 Hz
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 18.7 cm x 23.5 cm x 19.5 cm
- Weight
- 4.5 kg
- Manufacturer Warranty
- 2-year warranty
Detailed Specification
General
- Device Type
- Hard drive array
Chassis
- Installed Devices / Modules Qty
- 4
- Supported Devices / Modules Qty
- 4
- Supported Drives
- SATA-600
Storage
- Total Array Capacity
- 8 TB
- Max Supported Capacity
- 8 TB
- HDD Array External Interface
- Thunderbolt
Processor
- CPU
- 8011
Storage Controller
- Type
- RAID
- Interface Type
- SATA 6Gb/s
- Data Transfer Rate
- 600 MBps
- Cache / Buffer Size (Max)
- 512 MB
- RAID Level
- RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6, RAID 10
Hard Drive
- Type
- HDD - hot-swap
- Capacity
- 4 x 2 TB
- Spindle Speed
- 7200 rpm
Expansion / Connectivity
- Expansion Bays
- 4 (total) / 0 (free) x hot-swap - 3.5"
- Interfaces
- 2 x Thunderbolt
System Requirements
- OS Required
- Apple MacOS X 10.6.8 or later
Miscellaneous
- Software Included
- Drivers & Utilities
- Compliant Standards
- RoHS
Power
- Power Device
- 1 x internal power supply
- Max Supported Qty
- 1
- Voltage Required
- AC 120/230 V - 50/60 Hz
- Power Consumption Operational
- 78 Watt
- Power Provided
- 250 Watt
Dimensions & Weight
- Width
- 18.7 cm
- Depth
- 23.5 cm
- Height
- 19.5 cm
- Weight
- 4.5 kg
Manufacturer Warranty
- Service & Support
- Limited warranty - 2 years , Limited warranty - power supply - 1 year
