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It has four 1GB drives as opposed to the six 1GB drives in the Pegasus R6, but thatвЂ™s still quite a difference in price. In fact, in mid-2010, I bought a Buffalo LinkStation LS-Q4.0TL/R5 for about $500.00. I saved quite a bit by purchasing it from Amazon (click here for the latest price: PROMISE Pegasus R6 6TB RAID System ) but itвЂ™s still about twice the price of a comparable non-Thunderbolt six-bay storage device. Set up of the device couldnвЂ™t have been more simple вЂ“ just plug the power cable in, and connect a Thunderbolt cable between the Promise R6 and, in my case, the Thunderbolt Display.ДЄll this speed comes at a pretty hard to swallow price вЂ“ the Promise Pegasus R6 retails for $1800.00 in the Apple Store. IвЂ™ve got the Pegasus R6 sitting right on top of my desktop вЂ“ aesthetically it matches nicely to my other Apple devices, and itвЂ™s neither too loud or large:

PROMISE PEGASUS R4 REPLACEMENT DRIVES PRO

In fact, according to PC Mag.Com, the Pegasus R6 is вЂњso fast that it beats the internal solid-state drive (SSD) in an Apple MacBook Pro in speed and throughput tests.вЂќ You loose some of the overall storage capacity (youвЂ™ll have about to 5 TB of storage available with the R6 in RAID 5 configuration) but itвЂ™s still incredibly fast.

You can do so while the unit continues to function so you wonвЂ™t miss a beat productivity-wise. If any one of the six drives fails, the unit can continue to run without any data loss вЂ“ buy a replacement drive, and swap out the bad drive for a new one. But RAID 5 provides some speed benefits, strong data protection, and hot swapability of the individual drives. If youвЂ™d like to see a nice article which explains the differences between the various RAID configurations, click here. This is particularly shocking given that the RAID is comprised of Hitachi 7,200 RPM SATA drives:Д®ach of the six drives in the Pegasus R6 have a capacity of 1TB, and out of the box itвЂ™s set for RAID 5 (striping and data parity) which you can change/configure with the included software. This means that as a group, the six drive RAID outperform an internal SSD for read/write performance. The Promise Pegasus R6 is a 6-bay High Performance Hardware RAID capable of delivering a blistering two channels of 10 Gb/s (1.25GB/s) per port of performance thanks to ThunderboltвЂ™s high-speed I/O.

is currently the only storage manufacturer which supports IntelвЂ™s Thunderbolt specification which Apple adopted in their 2011 computers and laptops. And since I wouldnвЂ™t have to spend money on a separate desktop computer, premium storage solutions would now fit in my budget. Besides having only a 15вЂі screen, my MacBook Pro also only has a 500GB hard drive, so some additional storage was in order. To make this happen, I added the Apple Thunderbolt Display to give me a proper screen for doing both photo and video editing. The selection decisions I made for new peripherals was based around going from having a traditional desktop PC and a laptop to making my MacBook Pro 15вЂі laptop my main computer for all my needs. You may recall that a few days ago I posted about some changes I made to my IT setup in my office.

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