#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 COMPATIBLE DRIVES FOR MAC#
#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 COMPATIBLE DRIVES SOFTWARE#
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#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 COMPATIBLE DRIVES PC#

Since the drive lacks USB or eSATA, you won't be able to copy data directly off your old PC or Mac. The drive only has Thunderbolt ports, so if you want to use the drive with a PC, you'll need a PC with a Thunderbolt port. This is fine, since the drive is positioned more as a data work drive than a backup drive.

#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 COMPATIBLE DRIVES SOFTWARE#

The drive has no packed in software aside from drivers. The Pegasus R4 comes pre-formatted with HFS+ for OS X systems, but you can of course reformat the drive exFAT or NTFS for Windows PCs. The drive's internal power supply means that you won't have to find space for an external power brick, which saves a little space and makes it more convenient to move the drive to another Mac or PC. In the back the drive has a pair of 10Gbps Thunderbolt ports, a Kensington lock port, cooling fan exhaust, and a standard 3-pin power port. It's a big metal box with four removable drive sleds in the front, with power and access lights, and a perforated panel for cooling duties. It's got an identical if shorter facade like its big brother, the Promise Pegasus R6 ($1,999). The Pegasus R4 looks like a standard business-class RAID drive from the front. It's a drive for the media, database, and scientific professional who needs to work on multi-TB projects, and who need to constantly submit their work now.

#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 COMPATIBLE DRIVES FOR MAC#

It is one of the latest Thunderbolt drives on the market for Mac and PC users who have adopted the speedy 10Gbps interface. I do prefer the form factor of the G-Speed with the built-in handle but it's not a dealbreaker for me.The Promise Pegasus R4 is a four-bay RAID external drive for professionals that sling a lot of data. It would be unreadable on the mac until this was done, so if you only have a mac, I would add that to the list of things to be cautious about. This then needed a very laborious fix where I would have to plug in in to a PC (I mainly work on a Mac) then fix the errors on the PC, then re-attach it the the Mac. I also had a few occasions where the G-Speed would completely corrupt itself if it was accidentally unplugged whilst the machine was still on. I found the G-Speed to be constantly 'clunking' as the heads moved about whereas the Promise was overall, much quieter.

Noise-wise, the tower sits on my desk so the quieter the better. I had a few cases open with G-Tech but nothing came of it, they were no help. Although I realise that most of these type of RAIDs are optimised for larger files, the Pegasus did a better job. For example I found that copying things like TIFF sequences or multiple smaller video files (like GoPro or other minicam etc) would slow the G-Speed to a crawl. The main reasons I prefer the Pegasus over the G-Speed are the lower noise and the better performance when dealing with smaller files. If you do decide to do this then you can see my posts on their forum that describe and link to the process of doing it. The process of replacing the drives was very straightforward. I bought 24 of these and 3 more for spares in case I needed to swap out a failing drive (so far, all good).

#PROMISE PEGASUS R4 COMPATIBLE DRIVES CODE#

I think the largest on the list is 16TB.ДЇor me, I replaced the 4TB drives that mine shipped with, with 8TB Toshiba drives, specifically Toshiba Enterprise MG Series SATA drives - item code is MG05ACA800E - I believe this is similar to what I bought.

It hasn't been updated in a while but that shows you the drives they've tested it with. Hi, so I used the Promise compatibility document on their website to make sure I was using supported drives.

Promise pegasus r4 compatible drives