Promise Pegasus – Direct Attached Storage
Pegasus RAID Storage with Thunderbolt™
Pegasus R4 and R6 are the First 4-bay and 6-bay High Performance Hardware RAID Solutions designed to unleash the raw power of Thunderbolt™ technology. Thunderbolt technology is a new, high-speed, dual-protocol I/O technology designed for performance, simplicity, and flexibility. This high-speed I/O technology is capable of delivering a blistering two channels of 10 Gb/s (1.25GB/s) per port of performance.
SANLink – Fibre Channel adapter allows Thunderbolt enabled systems with dual 4Gb Fibre Channel connectivity allowing them access to the SAN (Storage Access network).
With it, you can interconnect allows SAN access to devices that was previously unavailable. It enables thunderbolt enabled Macbook Pros and imacs to connect to the SAN.
The dual ports on SANLInk provide more thane enough performance to edit videos supporting multiple simultaneous uncompressed HD Streams. SANLinks works with both Vtrak x10 an d x30 series storage providing a future proof connectivity solution.
If you are a Mac user, this is definitely a good DAS device for you. Unfortunately PC users will have to wait before Thunderbolt technology appears on the Intel or AMD platform.
