Promise Pegasus 12TB (6x2TB) R6 RAID System

Hardware RAID that unleashes the power of Thunderbolt.

Promise Pegasus R6 is a six-bay, high-performance hardware RAID solution designed to unleash the raw power of Thunderbolt. Pegasus R6 features six 2TB 7200-rpm hard drives in a compact RAID enclosure with Thunderbolt connectivity, delivering over 800MB/s disk performance.

  • 12TB of raw capacity
  • Advanced RAID engine
  • Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 50, 6, 60 and 10
  • Attractive, stylish, and compact enclosure
  • Ultra-quiet design
  • Two Thunderbolt ports
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$2,499.00

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Features

Apple Recommends 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.

Thunderbolt technology is a new, high-speed, dual-protocol I/O technology designed for performance, simplicity, and flexibility. Capable of delivering a blistering two channels of bi-directional 10 Gbit/s (1.25GB/s) per port 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 R6 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 R6 is capable of delivering over 800 MB/s of bandwidth that is 20 times faster than USB 2.0.

Easy to Use management software

Pegasus R6 comes preconfigured out of the box. Simply unpack, connect the power cable, connect the Thunderbolt cable (sold separately) to the Thunderbolt port on your computer and you're ready to store music, photos, videos and documents or create and edit production video. Managing Pegasus R6 is effortless with software designed for Mac OS X.

Storage for the Digital Home

With two channels of bi-directional 10 Gbit/s 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 R6 provides massive storage space and fast performance for popular applications such as iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, Photoshop and media center applications. Backup your invaluable digital media, documents and also your entire computer or workstation to Pegasus R6 with Time Machine in Mac OS X.

Blistering performance and unparalleled flexibility

With over 800 MB/s of performance Pegasus R6 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 award-winning enterprise level RAID 6 engine featuring mature error-handling schemes for the ultimate in data protection. Graphic artists using Adobe Photoshop and Maya 3D animation software can manipulate and archive high-resolution graphics on Pegasus with lightning-fast responsiveness and relative ease.

Thunderbolt technology's multi-protocol support enables Pegasus R6 to deliver amazing flexibility. Daisy-chain more than one Pegasus R6 enclosure to a single Thunderbolt port or connect a display to Pegasus R6 for the ultimate in convenience and interface connectivity.

Hardware RAID protection for small business

Protect your valuable business data with a reliable hardware RAID solution. You can use Pegasus R6 as large storage for a desktop system or as external storage solution for a small server. With 10TB 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 R6 can protect all these memories meant to last a lifetime from single drive failures, at the same time providing data protection, high availability and high reliability.

Flexible backup solution

Connect Pegasus R6 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 R6 is eco-friendly, keeping harmful lead out of the environment and our delicate ecosystems. Sporting a new enclosure design, an efficient power supply and active fan management, system noise is never an issue, making Pegasus R6 ideal for desktop, small office or any other environment in the house.

Highlights

  • 12TB of raw capacity (9.7TB configured RAID 5 and formatted with HFS+)
  • Advanced RAID engine
  • Supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 50, 6, 60 and 10
  • Attractive, stylish, and compact enclosure
  • Ultra-quiet design
  • Two Thunderbolt ports
  • Hot-swappable bays for effortless drive access and serviceability
  • Robust error handling provides superior data protection

Did You Notice?

To use a Pegasus RAID System with your Mac, you'll need a Thunderbolt cable.

Technical Specs

General

  • Other Features: Time Machine Compatible,RAID Support

Perfomance

  • Maximum Transfer Rate: Up to 800 MB/s in RAID 0
  • Hard Drive Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM

Power

  • AC Voltage: 90-100W with PFC, 100-230V auto-ranging, 50-60Hz AC
  • Power: Power consumption: 78W max load (read and write); 55W idle mode

Dimension

  • Width: 7.7 in./19.5 cm
  • Weight: 20.2 lb./9.2 kg
  • Length: 7.3 in./18.5 cm
  • Height: 9.9 in./25.0 cm

Compatibility

Mac

  • Mac OS X v10.6.8 or later
  • 100MB of free hard-drive space
  • Mac with Thunderbolt port
  • Thunderbolt cable (sold separately)

What's in the Box?

  • Pegasus R6 with six 2TB 7200-rpm drives
  • Quick start guide
  • Power cable

Manufacturer Information

Warranty

  • Warranty: Two years with a one-year limited warranty on fan and power adapter
  • Note: Products sold through this website that do not bear the Apple Brand name are serviced and supported exclusively by their manufacturers in accordance with terms and conditions packaged with the products. Apple's Limited Warranty does not apply to products that are not Apple-branded, even if packaged or sold with Apple products. Please contact the manufacturer directly for technical support and customer service.

Part Number

  • UPC or EAN No.: 704118085705
  • Mfr. Part Number: F40DS6705100000

Manufacturer Note

  • Note: To use a Pegasus RAID System with your Mac, you'll need to purchase a Thunderbolt cable.
 

Most Useful Reviews

  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Awesome product!!

    • Written by from Aspen

    I'm running a 2011 MBP with the Thunderbolt Pegasus R6 and it's showing a reliable 650MB read/write with a RAID5 configuration on 256MB files using Digaloyd's sequential test suite. I'm impressed. BTW, I'm running Hitachi's 3GB Ultrastar enterprise HD's in the R6 with no apparent hiccups.... that means 15TB useable RAID5 on the R6 with 3GB drives. More

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Stunning

    • Written by from Raleigh

    I've put it through the testing grounds and I could not be happier with my purchase.
    Initially, my Pegasus 12TB shipped with a bad drive in the 6th bay, but Promise support was able to replace it within just a few days of contacting them. However, during that time I was able to use the remaining 8TB (due to my Raid 5 configuration) with smooth operation. Thunderbolt meets and exceeds the hype surrounding it. I'm a professional editor with particular needs and the Pegasus meets all of them, cutting film has never been easier or more accessible on my own system. Gone are the days of pricey rentals of fiber connected rooms at post houses. This technology changes everything for everyone with digital media and storage needs. More

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Brilliant, works without a hitch

    • Written by from MONROE

    Absolutely superb storage solution. Mine is running on a 2011 iMac 27", it's exceptionally fast throughput, easy setup, diagnostic tools are robust and easy to use. I highly recommend a quick tour through the instructions before beginning a copy or removing a disk -- it requires roughly 8 hours for optimizing the pre-configured RAID 5 setup, and removing a disk will stop the process. I also recommend that if you order the R6 online, get the Thunderbolt cable from your local Apple retailer (the shipping for the cable takes longer than for the R6 itself, mine was shipped out of Hong Kong). Otherwise, standard shipping had it to me in a week and data copying from multiple sources is very quick, stable and easy. Well worth the investment! More

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Most Recent Reviews

  • 1.0 out of 5 stars

    Just received it, drive 5 is bad.

    • Written by from Sacramento

    1) I've had this unit a day.

    2) I read the reviews, and thought, 'Hey, there's always a few lemons." Wrong.

    3) On the initial build of a brand new system I've got bad sectors. Sigh.

    4) The fact that this is happening to a brand new system, and appears to be systemic, leads me to believe that Promise has a serious problem.

    5) The power off date (array testing) shows as exactly 28 days ago. So this was tested. So you're telling me the drive failed spontaneously in 28 days, when that was probably enough time to pack, ship, and have reshipped to the end user, and it's been run for a total of about 8 hours? No way.

    So, what’s the deal? They most likely didn't actually do a low level test of this thing, which means that Promise isn't testing this unit, and if that's the case, then they really aren’t doing their job, especially given that all of the reviews for this thing talks about bad drives on unpack.

    It’s not a good sign. This is not a quality supplier. Promise is doing brand damage, and it’s true: believe the reviews.

    I'll probably be sending it back and waiting for something to come out from company that has a proper QA department. Avoid the headache and wait if you can.
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    4 of 7 people found this useful

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  • 4.0 out of 5 stars

    Keep in mind...

    • Written by from Carson City

    that this device MAXES OUT AT 12TB. You can add drives larger than 2TB but you won't get more than 12TB of storage. I was disappointed by this, given that 4TB drives can be had easily. Also be aware that there have been issues with Mobile phones (European spectrum specifically) causing this device to unmount, when the phone is too close to Thunderbolt cables. This may have been a shielding issue with early Thunderbolt cables, but research it if you are a European customer. More

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  • 5.0 out of 5 stars

    Working Perfectly - My Data Finally Feels Safe

    • Written by from Toronto

    Speed is unbelievable as many other reviewers will attest to. It's far faster than the 2TB second drive in my 2011 iMac.

    But the best feature is the size and simplicity. I had it up and running in under 5 minutes, waited the 10 hours for the initialization, and it's worked perfectly ever since.

    The new iMac was the reason I bought the Pegasus - I suddenly had 2.25 GB of disk space to potentially backup, and wanted to be able to back that up with no concern. My existing backups wouldn't handle it, and reshuffling drives would take a day, lots of copying, and ongoing management efforts.

    It's not a bad idea to have 2x what you need for storage. Then you don't have to worry about running out space, and run into those awkward moments where your backups are offline for a month while you ponder your next step.

    I have 4TB used and 6TB free at the moment. I imagine I'll be at 6TB used and 4TB free by the end of the year. When I need more space in a few years, I'll buy a new NAS and relegate this one to secondary backup.
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