by The Pegasus2 R6 from Promise is the first Thunderbolt 2 peripheral to make its way into the Macworld Lab. It’s a six-drive 12TB hardware RAID box and can be purchased from the Apple Store for $2299.
The Pegasus2 R6 we received has six 7200-rpm hard drives with 2TB of capacity each, the same capacity as the first Pegasus we tested. The Pegasus2 is a hardware RAID that comes preconfigured as RAID 5 array, but can easily be changed to to RAID 0, 1, 10, or JBOD using the included software. The Pegasus2 has a black aluminum case to better match the design of the new Mac Pro and has two Thunderbolt 2 ports to allow for daisy chaining up to six compatible devices. Thunderbolt products with just one port, must sit at the end of a daisy chain, and having two ports gives you more flexibility, and have two Thunderbolt 2 ports means that you can connect more Thunderbolt 2 devices.
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