The bad: The promise R6 Pegasus Ray only works with Mac, for now, is expensive and noisy place, and does not include the necessary measures Lightning cable or other connection devices.
The bottom line: If you have a compatible computer Thunderbolt, R6 Pegasus Promise storage capacity, functions, and especially his performance is worth the heavy investment for those who need fast external storage.
Review:
Apple and Intel have announced Thunderbolt variant of the Intel interconnect technology of light in February with a focus on speed broadband to benefit particularly to storage devices. R6 Pegasus, the first storage device Thunderbolt-enabled on the market, Promise Technology provides most of the time.
In fact, this is only a storage device for Mac desktops and laptops and Apple's new are the only teams in the market with the necessary port beam. The R6 Pegasus is not compatible with other data, such as USB and FireWire standards of the box, and given the price of $ 1,500 for 6 TB ... Develop comprehensive review
Apple and Intel announced the Intel alternative interconnection LightPeak Lightning last February with a focus on broadband speed to benefit especially storage devices. R6 Pegasus, the first storage device on the market enabled Ray, most of the Promise technology offers.
In practice, this is a Mac-only devices like the latest desktop and laptop computers from Apple are currently the only computer on the market the necessary port Thunderbolt. Pegasus R6 is not supported by other data such as USB and FireWire out of the box, and because prices of $ 1,500 to $ 1,999 version 6 TB and 12 TB for the version of the R6 is a heavy investment. We expect that the price will drop most of the Thunderbolt storage devices come to market, but if you need fast, high-capacity today, the R6 Pegasus is the fastest external RAID currently available.
Design and functionality
Pegasus is the size of waiting for a storage device, which has hosted the six internal 3.5-inch hard disks to be: it is very large. However, as all the equipment to work with Mac, you can stay in a visually, with aluminum frame. On the back, the R6 is a standard network connection similar to a desktop computer, a big fan hard drive, a second hole has a smaller power supply and two Thunderbolt port. You can use one of these ports to connect the host computer using a cable to the Thunderbolt, which unfortunately is not included and costs $ 49 seconds. When the other port, you can daisy-chain up to five devices Thunderbolt, or a connection Mini DisplayPort monitor without compromising bandwidth, according to Thunderbolt. We connected two R6 units of Pegasus in one of our tests, and have not suffered drop-off performance.
R6 on the front, in addition to standard power button and indicator lights, there are six drive bays. You can easily remove the disc through the locks that are small robust enough to prevent accidental pull out the disc. When you remove the drive tray, you can easily install or change the standard Phillips screwdriver. Our review unit came at a price six 2TB SATA 3 (6Gbps) hard drives. These stations set up by default RAID 5 offers 10 GB of storage space, leaving for the 2TB hard.
RAID 5 is usually the recommended configuration for a storage device, multi-bay to provide a balance between the integrity of capacity, performance and data. R6 Pegasus also supports RAID 0, 1, 50, 6, 60 and 10 In our experiments, changing the drive between RAID 5 and RAID 0 in less than a minute. It is a great bonus, as most other storage devices enabled for RAID take ten hours to build a RAID-5 from scratch. Note that if the hard drives in a RAID R6 Pegasus door would take up to nine hours to rebuild the RAID with a replacement disk. The unit continues to operate normally during this time, however, just a slower speed.
There is nothing to set the R6 Pegasus. Out of the box, the drive is preformatted in HFS +, and once connected to your computer Thunderbolt, is now available for Mac, like other external storage devices. However, easy to install, run with the well-illustrated reference guide that will walk you through the installation process and explains how its components work together.
The album contains a package of the promise of software installation utility that you can customize the player to change your RAID, hard drive monitoring requirements, and so on.
Performance
We tested the Pegasus how to test storage devices, copying large amounts of data from place to place and measure the speed of the device. Although this method does not show the higher theoretical bandwidth of the device, which replicates what you would get the device in the everyday real world.
Since the R6 is the first storage device based on Thunderbolt, which calibrates the two sets of tests. In the first set, they compared their results with those of internal hard drives, two hard drives and traditional solid-state drives (SSD). In the second set, straightened R6 Pegasus to other external devices that use USB 3.0, USB 2.0, FireWire and eSATA.