Comments on: Promise Pegasus Portable Thunderbolt Drives Now Available!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:23:00 +0000

yes, and I’m sure it’s great. However, to note, the J2 offers quite a bit more speed…if you need it…

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:20:00 +0000

I’m not sure at the moment. I’m trying to get more information on that in the coming days. Part of me wants to think it must (the size doesn’t seem too restricted…i.e. they should have been able to make 15mm drives work), but we’ll see… I’ll update as I know more. But yes, that would be fantastic. Some similar systems exist (like Drobo’s), but they don’t allow bus-powered operation like the J4 does — that’s what I’m really excited about. And honestly, who cares if it ‘only’ does 500MB/s…that’s still MORE than enough for any photo editing needs…

By: Joel Lopes Da Silva

Joel Lopes Da Silva — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:50:00 +0000

Adam, thank you so much for sharing that! I’ve been waiting for more information on the Promise Pegasus J4.

Do you have any idea whether tall 2.5 inch drives will be supported in the empty Promise Pegasus J4 enclosure?

I’d love to buy one to put four WD Green Mobile Hard Drives: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=830 because of their unusually high capacity (up to 2 TB for 2.5 inch hard drives); but that’s only possible because they’re 15mm tall instead of the more typical 9.5mm.

By: John Pesina

John Pesina — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:14:00 +0000

There’s also this el gato 240Gb SSD for 200 less than the promises J2.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=el+gato+240&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=

By: kurnikoff

kurnikoff — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:38:00 +0000

hopefully in like 4-5 years SSDs will be “norm” and spinning drives out. This way I guess price will fall and their capacity will increase? Spending “few” $100 on 256GB is a bit too much at the moment for most of us :(

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 06:32:00 +0000

My current MacBook Pro doesn’t support Thunderbolt, but it’s time for an upgrade soon, at which time you can be sure I’ll be testing some of these.

That said, I’d never use these drives for straight-up storage. I go through data quickly, too, but these would be great for portable work drives that you can have live work on until you can move the finished product to a backup/storage drive when it’s all said and done… Getting one of these could make editing large/complex files bearable on a machine with ‘normal’ hard drives.

By: Mike Folden

Mike Folden — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 02:12:00 +0000

Have you guys tried out the Seagate GoFlex with the TB adaptor? SSD’s are rad but I go through 1TB every few months for video and the price above just doesn’t work with me. I’d love a review on the Seagates though!