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Promise Technologies R6 Thunderbolt Direct Attach Storage
The box weighs 25 pounds with six drives installed.
The R6 comes configured as RAID 5, formatted for Windows and management software on the drive.
I will swap Hitachi drives and install 120GB Force GT's to see what the maximum transfer rate possible.
http://www.promise.com/storage/raid_...sn1=40&rsn3=47
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The system did not see the drive out of the box, MSI was quick to dispatch a new driver and BIOS file to fix.
This is the drive properly configured in Device Manager.
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I am setup on the new MSI Z77A-GD80 w/Thunderbolt
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/Z77A-GD80.html#!mm=about
Intel 3770K ES Processor
4x Kingston LoVo memory 1600Mhz C9
Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Corsair Force GT boot drive
Corsair AX750w PSU
Thermaltake SwordM case
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Promise Technologies WebPAM management software.
With correctly loaded drivers the software is light and quick.
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This R6 was configured with six drives, they are Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000.
http://www.hgst.com/deskstar-7k3000
I will ask if there are other drive options, I would feel better with WD enterprise drives.
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I ran AIDA 64 HD benchmark to get some quick numbers on RAID 5 before I switch it to SSD RAID 0
Pretty good numbers, close to the Hitachi specs of 150MB/s x 6 = 900MB/s in RAID 5
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Promise Technology makes their own PCB.
The processor is PMC Sierra and cache memory is Hynix
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WebPAM is the R6 management software. It runs in the browser.
Here are a few more screen shots from the stats and more.
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