by When Apple wanted to showcase its first Thunderbolt-enabled Macs, it turned to Promise Technology and the storage company’s Pegasus multiple-drive RAID enclosures to highlight the finer ponts of the nascent peripheral connection technology. Now that the next version of Thunderbolt is upon us, Promise thinks it will be the first to enter the market with a RAID 5 storage product for Thunderbolt 2.
I had a chance to talk to Promise’s Vijay Char at the Thunderbolt Community showcase during this week’s Intel Developer Forum. Char was showing the Pegasus2 R series of RAID 5 hard drive enclosures and SANLink2 Fibre Channel bridge products.
Photo: James GalbraithThis SANLink2 is an example of the kind of Thunderbolt 2 storage peripherals Promise Technology is planning to release at the time the Mac Pro ships.
The products I saw at IDF were just display models—nothing was running a live demo. Still, once Apple begins shipping its revamped Mac Pro later this year, Promise plans to have its Thunderbolt 2 products available, Char says.
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