promise

I still use an original Promise Pegasus R6 Thunderbolt Enclosure with barely 200 hours of operation on it, It is partitioned as RAID5, with no Spare Drive, uses 3TB HDD's, and has 15TB of useable space. I mostly use it for Backup images of my MacOS, and for video and audio archives. I am...

The cage to mount hard drives internally should have come standard with this new Mac Pro. $400 for a metal cage, an overpriced 8 TB surveillance spinner I don't need, and a "custom" power connector, just to use internal drives I already own? I could buy an iWatch with cellular for that! I...

I bought two PROMISE PEGASUS R1-6 (Thunderbolt1, silver): one in 2011 and the second unit in 2013. 2011 R1-6: 6x Ultrastar 4TB disks, RAID-6 2013 R1-6: 6xSeagate NAS 4TB, RAID-6 Both units worked flawless, for many years... I did measure IO speed, and it was 650MB/sec originally. In 2019 IO...

Hi there, Hoping for any assistance. We lost our Promise RJ11 to DB9 cable so purchased a new one off eBay, when trying to connect either directly into Xserve or attached to a DB9 to USB into a Mac Pro we are unable to type in Terminal, iTerm, Zterm or Serial (Serial does get to the username...

Can someone explain the difference between the two? I bought the Promise but now am wondering if I need the time machine. My work requires me to hold a lot of photos but I need to easily access those photos as well. Any advice?