Unfortunately, there are quite a few other things you can complain about. We did try two Pegasus R6es together and witnessed no drop-off in performance. On top of that the drive is good-looking and, per the Thunderbolt standard, can be daisy-chained with five others without reducing the bandwidth. In other words, nobody can complain about the drive's performance. This means that in some parts of our testing, it was the test machine itself that imposed the bottleneck of the data connection. You can even call it too fast, as it's much faster than our test machine's internal drive, which is already one of the fastest internal storage devices on the market: a SATA 3 (6Gbps)-based solid-state drive. However, the hardest part was not the logistics but how to rate the drive.Īs Thunderbolt currently offers 10Gbps bandwidth (about 1.2GBps), the Pegasus R6 is by far the fastest storage device we've ever seen. For one thing, as it's the first storage device with Thunderbolt, we needed to think of a new set of tests for it while still comparing it with existing storage devices in a way that makes sense. It's a storage device like no other.Īnd it was hard to review it. If you're looking for a storage device that only a few deserving computers can handle, Promise Technology's Thunderbolt-enabled Pegasus R6 external hard drive is for you. The first Thunderbolt-enabled storage device, the Pegasus R6 from Promise Technology.

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