OT(ish): Promise Technology 12TB Pegasus2 R4 Thunderbolt 2 RAID Storage Array

[Eric Santiago]

Got a few of these but we populated them with drives from a dead GTECH FC XL RAID I think 7200RPM 1.5TB.

Does the job not as fast as I wanted but works.

[Scott Witthaus]

Thanks Eric. Anything better that you know of?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Nick Toth]

I use a Promise R4 8 TB. It’s OK but not as fast as I wish. As far as the 12TB version, my concern would be the fact that it is populated with 3 TB hard drives. See this article for more info on the reliability of 3 TB drives:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-q4-2015/

[Doug Metz]

My daily driver is the Areca 8050T2:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1032197-REG/areca_arc_8050t2_8_bay_thunderbolt_2_raid.html

Loaded it with 2TB HGST drives and formatted RAID6. The fan is a tad louder than I’d like, but speed and data integrity have been great.

Doug Metz

Anode

[Eric Sternberger]

I would use an R6 – more Speed, more Safe, more value.
We are using this unit since 3 years with zero issues. Speed is 700mb/sec floor

[Scott Witthaus]

Thanks. Any other manufacturers folks would recommend?

Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter

[Eric Santiago]

I use GTECH RAIDs and have not had any issues with the portables, SAS and recent Thunderbolt2 offerings.
However we did kill a two FC XL units but the other two are still going strong after 6 years. Those are Fibre units though.