Apple selling Promise Thunderbolt products alongside Mac Pros

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June 28, 2011 at 7:41 am

As we broke last night, Apple is now carrying Thunderbolt parts. The Pegasus RAID units just showed up but we noticed something a little odd:

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Interesting combo.  Currently the Mac Pro doesn’t have a Thunderbolt port.

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So yeah, Apple art team either jumped the gun, used the wrong equipment, or pre-announced the new Mac Pros.  We were hoping for a slight redesign which doesn’t look to be the case (see what I did there?)…

MacRumors notes:

The new Thunderbolt RAID systems include the Promise Pegasus R4 in 4x1TB($999) and 4x2TB ($1499) capacities and the Promise Pegasus R6 in 6x1TB ($1499) and6x2TB ($1999) capacities. The R4 offers bandwidth of over 500 MB/sec, while the R6 offers over 800 MB/sec.