Promise Pegasus: The world's first hard disk array to support the Lightning port

It is understood that many media reported that "promise and Apple Pre-birth", refers to the Pegasus products. In fact, the origins of Apple and promise, to the beginning of 2007, promise disk array storage products in early 2007 began to import the MAC OS x application environment, and compatible with the Xsan architecture. Meet the needs of large film, TV broadcast, medium digital multimedia studio for high speed, high-capacity storage equipment. This year, PROMISE Pegasus the market soon, won the 2011MacWorld "best Apple External storage Device" award, visible its technical strength.

For such a current on the Apple website and promise dedicated channel sales of storage peripherals, so that the author has been filled with a glimpse of the rapid expectations, when the promise Pegasus shipped from the manufacturer to the "Storage Online" office opened the box, so that all members of the storage online evaluation team suddenly bright. Exquisite appearance craft and Apple air and so on inherent silver-gray, first glance to know: Pegasus and Apple Air is really "perfect match".

Technical Achievement Excellence

The author is the first group of domestic close contact Promise Pegasus Products members, Promise Pegasus is the world's first to support the lightning port of the hard disk array. Currently, the machine that supports the Thunderbolt interface has a Mac computer with Thunderbolt interface, and only 2011 new MacBook Pro (published in February 2011) and the imac (20,115 months) are available on the market with Thunderbolt interface. Simply put: MacBook Pro 2011, macbook Air 2011 and Mac Mini 2011.

I believe that the Thunderbolt interface of the technical characteristics of the understanding of the author or a few words, what is Thunderbolt?

Thunderbolt is Intel's new input/output technology, which improves data transfer speed, faster than the current USB 3.0 data transfer speed, and can increase the speed of transmission between several devices. Thunderbolt will appear as a new port on notebooks and PCs and on other devices that support the technology. The Thunderbolt wiring looks similar to the mini DisplayPort wiring.

Thunderbolt Technology leverages existing DisplayPort and pci-express data protocols to enable a single high-speed port for a variety of purposes, including linking up to 67 Thunderbolt-enabled devices and maintaining maximum speed for all devices when data is transferred.

Before the test, the author will update the system to Mac OS X 10.6.8 version, and with the new version of EFI software updates, Thunderbolt software updates. Pegasus drivers are included in the Mac OS X 10.6.8 software update.

Overall, Pegasus is a dedicated disk array storage product designed for professional AV users, with sophisticated fuselage sizes that do not occupy too many working desktops and provide stunning transmission speeds and oversized storage capacity. With a six-bit Pegasus R6, it provides up to 12TB of storage space and up to 864mb/s transmission speed. Pegasus adopts a new generation of Thunderbolt transmission technology, it can provide up to 10gb/s (1.25GB/S) two-way, dual-channel transmission speed, and current transmission

Transmission technology compared to the current USB 2.0 of 20 times times, FireWire 800 of 8 times times. The high transmission speed of the Thunderbolt interface allows you to edit and play multiple uncompressed 8-bit or uncompressed video streaming at the same time using the Mac computer with the Thunderbolt interface and executing the final Cut Pro software. Pegasus's high storage capacity is also suitable for use in other mainstream Mac applications, such as Aperture, iphoto or imovie repositories, or as a storage medium for time machine backups.

However, the author reminds consumers: Pegasus Equipment Packaging does not contain Thunderbolt cable, users need to purchase separately in the Apple online store, Thunderbolt cable priced rmb$368 yuan, purchase URL (http:// Store.apple.com/cn/product/mc913fe/a?mco=mty3odq5oty).

In addition, promise for the user to think also more thoughtful, Pegasus equipment packaging inside there are two power lines, respectively, for different plugs.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)