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These bays are closed with a latch that's easily opened but prevents you from pulling a drive out accidentally. On the front of the R4, in addition to the standard power button and status lights, you'll find the four drive bays. You can get a long (6-foot) one from Apple for $50 or a shorter (3-feet) one from Belkin for $45. Note that, like all of the Thunderbolt devices I've reviewed, the Pegasus R4 doesn't come with the necessary Thunderbolt cable.
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I did need to install Apple's Boot Camp software for the display to work, however. In my trials with a computer running Windows 7, the R4 worked well with other Thunderbolt devices, including Apple's Thunderbolt Display.
You can add up to five more devices this way in a daisy-chain setup. Most Thunderbolt devices have two ports, one for connecting to a host computer and the other to another Thunderbolt drive. There's a big ventilation fan and there are two Thunderbolt ports. This is very convenient since it means you can use the same type of power cable. On the back, the R4 comes with a standard power connector, the kind you normally find at the back of a desktop computer. But it does work with both, and the review unit is preformatted using NTFS, which is Windows' native file system.
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With an all-aluminum chassis and the white color, it looks more like a typical Mac device than one that works with Windows. The drive looks very much like the R6, just two drive bays shorter. This is to be expected since it has enough room to host four standard-size 3.5-inch hard drives. While some 5 pounds lighter than its big brother, the R6, the Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt drive is still huge, weighing about 15 pounds.
My guess is that the price of the technology as a whole will come down quickly since the Thunderbolt ecosystem has become a lot more popular, with more and more vendors joining. The Pegasus R4 still costs about $1,000 for 4TB or $1,500 for the 8TB version, and you still need to buy the Thunderbolt cable separately. Just because Thunderbolt is now available for Windows doesn't mean it's noticeably cheaper. Effectively, it marks the end of an era in which Thunderbolt storage was exclusively for Mac.
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From my trial with Intel's first Thunderbolt-certified motherboard, the switch of file system from HFS+ to NTFS (which can be easily done) is the only major thing you need to do to make any previously Mac-only Thunderbolt storage device work with Windows.Īnd you don't have to do that with the new Pegasus R4, since it also now comes preformatted for Windows. Now the Thunderbolt standard is available and works virtually the same for both Windows and Mac platforms. After a few seconds, press the Power button again to start the unit up, and the firmware should now be fully updated.The drive was actually first released together with the Pegasus R6 more than a year ago, when Thunderbolt first came out for Macs exclusively. Once complete, press and hold the Power button on the Promise unit until the button light changes from blue to red. You will then have to confirm that you want to update, and ensure that nothing shuts the system down during that process. img file, then click on Next to proceed with the update.
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Then open the Promise Utility, and select the Firmware Update command from its Admin menu.Ĭlick on the Choose File button, locate that.
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Instead, visit the support page, make your way to the Pegasus Series – Pegasus R4 listing, locate the firmware, and download it as a. So if you want to update the firmware in your Promise RAID, don’t leave it to the app. And it didn’t: the firmware version was reported as being unchanged. When updated in this way, you then have to shut the RAID unit down, and start it up again, for the update to take effect. It then kindly informed me that there was a firmware update, it downloaded the update, and claimed to have installed it for me.
I first updated the Promise Utility itself, to the current version. Like me, you probably don’t run the Promise Utility unless there are problems if you don’t have any problems for a good while, chances are that neither that app nor you have checked for updates.Īnother snag is that the app doesn’t always install the updates which it says it will. If you have one of these Thunderbolt external RAID arrays, it is easy to let its firmware get quite out of date.
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