Form Factor: Desktop 2-Bay Enclosure plus Media Bay.In our configuration, we populated the R2+ with 256GB Samsung 850 Pro SSDs though we did not use or test any of the pods. The Pegasus2 R2+ is available for a street price of roughly $700. It also supports up to six high-speed peripheral devices in daisy-chaining, which include external hard drives, video capture devices, and a Mini DisplayPort monitor. In addition, the DAS uses backwards compatible Thunderbolt 2 technology with two channels of 20Gb/s throughput in both directions simultaneously. These certainly make the device quite flexible, as it gives media professionals access multiple different media formats. Promise claims that the R2+ is the fastest Thunderbolt 2 hardware RAID storage solution on the market.įor added versatility, R2+ also provides users with several add-on ‘pod’ options including two SD/CF CardReaders (which are included) and both a 1TB HDD and a SSD reader pod, all of which come with USB 3.0 Micro-B for independent access. The R2+ is catered towards smaller businesses, SOHO users, and media professionals looking to migrate and manage their data at very high speeds. PROMISE Technology’s Pegasus2 R2+ is a two-bay Thunderbolt 2 DAS equipped with RAID 0/1 configurable storage using hot-swappable HDDs.

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