I took it out of the Pegasus R4 case, put it into an external USB drive enclosure, reformatted it from my Mac, took it out of the external drive enclosure and put it back into the Pegasus R4 case. Note: I was too nervous to try reformatting that physical drive with the Promise Utility while it was still inside of the R4 case. Dec 18, 2019 You will need to open Disk Utility then go to - File - RAID assistance. Create a stripe with both the R4i logical volume and the Pegasus32 R4. Once the RAID stripe is created we benchmarked. Test Software: Blackmagic Design, Disk Speed Test 3.2. Test Hardware: Mac Pro 2019 8 core Xeon, 32gb ECC DIMMs, 580x Module, Pegasus J2i 1 x 8TB 7200rpm.
- Promise Pegasus R4i delivers the powerful RAID engine from the Pegasus as an internal four-bay RAID MPX Module for Mac Pro. Get the blazing speeds essential for your high-resolution video and rich media projects, along with the safety and security of a full-featured hardware RAID engine.
- View the manual for the Promise Technology Pegasus2 R4 here, for free. This manual comes under the category Disk arrays and has been rated by 1 people with an average of a 8.4. This manual is available in the following languages: English. Do you have a question about the Promise Technology Pegasus2 R4 or do you need help? Ask your question here.
- Promise dev support was able to recommend the following compatible drives up to 3TB (but not larger) on my legacy R4 unit., but just make sure you have the latest pegasus r4/r6 firmware update first (currently SR 2.44), you can do this on the empty chassis if you need too. 3tb drives (from current compatibility list-link below).
We love Promise Pegasus R6 RAIDS. Lots of capacity, a fast Thunderbolt connection and they are (pretty) reliable. Spinning disks do go wrong, so what happens if your R6 has a hard drive failure?
The Pegasus R6 was one of the first peripherals to have a Thunderbolt connection on the back. Apart from a Thunderbolt pass through and a mains connector, that's all there is on the back!
Quicken high sierra. The RAIDs are a great way to have lots of fast storage (up to 24TB in a single unit) connected to any Mac that supports a Thunderbolt connector, yes MacBook Air included. They can be looped together, so as you can see from the picture below 50 Terabytes at the side of a desk isn't uncommon!
They are built up from 6 traditional spinning hard disks and every now and then one will fail. This is exactly what happened to our good friend Philip Johnston who runs HDWarrior. We shared his pain during numerous telephone conversations when he explained that a large FCPX project that he had been working on was now at risk.
So what do you do when a drive fails in a Promise Pegasus R6?
Philip Googled and Googled but couldn't find anything. Wondershare video converter ultimate user manual pdf. The PDF manual is very detailed, maybe too detailed and too technical for somebody who just wants to change a bad drive. Quickly.
So Philip phoned up Promise support and got help. The video that he made explains all.. Call of cthulhu game.
Pegasus2 R4 Promise Utility For Mac Rebuild Raid Pack
So Philip is back up and running, all credit to Promise for the excellent technical support.