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So I have a Thunderbay 4 drive with Thunderbolt 3 and also just purchased a Pegasus3 R4. Both are connected via Thunderbolt 3 and the Promise is formated as raid 5.
The Promise is over double the speed writing and substantially faster reading
Here is the speed comparison
Promis Pegasus
OWC Thunderbay
Posted : 09/04/2021 4:02 am
What are the drives in each?
Use AJA System test (free in app store), it is a more reliable and consistent benchmark test.
My recommended settings to test disks, not CPU are:
5K video resolution (any)
RGBA codec
16 GB or 64GB file size.
Posted : 09/04/2021 1:19 pm
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@softraid-support same drives as I moved the drives from the Thunderbay over in to new Promise Pegasus
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Posted : 09/04/2021 4:16 pm
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Promise Raid R4
OWC Thunderbay
Substantially slower given they are both Thunderbolt 3
This OWC does not have the same HD though it's my Secon OWC with WD Red Drives
but results are pretty similar to my previous test where I swapped the same drives over.
Posted : 09/04/2021 4:46 pm
The test you need to do, which I did, was set each individual disk to be JBOD. That is what I did in my testing. I won't have access to the Promise box to repeat this testing immediately, but will get to it when I can.
Posted : 10/04/2021 9:38 am
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@softraid-support not really I run my units as Raid 5 not JBOD so that’s the speed i’m interested in. That’s ok a just on top of all the SoftRaid issues and Kernel panics I experienced. So unfortunately I will have to say goodby to OWC storage solutions.
Posted : 10/04/2021 3:57 pm
