Via its Mini DisplayPort form factor, Thunderbolt is able to feed video to external monitors.

Interestingly, Thunderbolt’s improvements over other transfer technologies are more than a matter of pure transfer speed. While eSATA’s 6Gbps and USB 3.0’s 5Gbps speeds dwarf the common USB 2.0 standard of 480MBps, Thunderbolt’s theoretical maximum of 10Gbps blows everything out of the water.ĭespite the “theoretical” qualifier, the R6 has plenty of headroom for Thunderbolt to prove itself in the real world – More on this later. And the amazing part is that the actual storage space isn’t the R6’s biggest draw! Utilizing Intel’s Thunderbolt technology, Promise Technologies delivers all those Terabytes at blazing fast speeds.ĭeveloped by Intel and brought to market by Apple, Thunderbolt sits atop the current crop of consumer grade high speed hard drive transfer technologies.

Some fifteen years on, the Pegasus R6 provides home users with 12 Terabytes of directly attached RAID storage. I still remember purchasing my first computer in the mid 1990s with its massive 400MB hard disk drive.

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