The all new Pegasus2 R8 (left) next to the previous generation, the Pegasus R6.

It's not perfect, though, since it's very expensive and, in my trial, would take a relatively long time to resume from sleep mode, making it a little inconvenient to use with a laptop.īut the Pegasus2 is definitely a desktop storage solution, and while for most consumers it's overkill, for professionals who need super-fast speed or archiving or real-time 4K video editing, its incredible performance is worth the hefty investment, which is between $1,500 and $4,600, depending on the model and capacities. It almost doubled the performance of its predecessor, as you'd expect from the move to Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt 2. In my testing, the Pegasus2 R8 proved to be the fastest consumer-grade direct-attached storage solution to date. Other than that it's very similar to the previous-generation models.Īs a hardware RAID system, the Pegasus2 supports all RAID configurations available for the number of internal drives it houses, be it four drives (the R4 model), six drives (the R6), or eight (the R8).

The Pegasus2 line is Promise's upgrade to the previous Pegasus lineup (including the Pegasus R6 and the Pegasus R4) it adds support for Thunderbolt 2 and an all new R8 model - used in this review - that includes eight internal drives to offer up to 32TB of storage space.

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