The Promise R6 uses Thunderbolt for direct - sequester store , with six - bay tree computer hardware maraud .
After a last minute courier legal transfer on Thursday morning to CeBIT Hall 2,Promise Technologybecame the first company at CeBit to certify Thunderbolt .
ThePromise Pegasus R4 and R6are four- and six - embayment RAID arrays with Thunderbolt connectivity , two of the first products outside of Apple to sport the technology .
The Promise R6 uses Thunderbolt for direct-attached storage, with six-bay hardware RAID.
Thunderbolt was unveil last week with thelaunch of a new range of Apple MacBook Pronotebooks that feature the belated connection measure from Intel .
Formerly known as Light Peak , this hyperfast I / O system is said to allow two channels of 10Gbps transfer . This contrasts with the emerging USB 3.0 touchstone , specified to 4.8Gbps .
On its expo stand at CeBIT 2011 , Promise Technology demonstrated some of the potentiality of the system of rules by bring four streams of uncompressed high - definition telecasting .
Using the latest 15-inch MacBook Pro, Promised showed some of the capabilities of Thunderbolt with its hardware RAID Pegasus R6.
Using the latest 15 - inch MacBook Pro , Promised picture some of the capabilities of Thunderbolt with its ironware RAID Pegasus R6 .
For the Pegasus R6 , Promise Technology quote over 800MBps unsanded performance . And in the demonstration visitor could see the apparatus take the four - provender 1920 - by-1080 , 10 - bit uncompressed datastream in its pace .
Played from a Modern MacBook Pro , Mac OS X ’s Activity Monitor app record a stream that averaged 630MBps , with a 650.9MBps elevation datarate .
Unlike some maraud system , Promise habituate a hardware foray system , rather than conducted through computer software by a unit ’s CPU .
Worldwide pricing for the Promise Pegasus is to be denote , with availability said to be within the second fourth part of this yr .
