The drive looks very much like the R6, just two drive bays shorter. This is to be expected since it has enough room to host four standard-size 3.5-inch hard drives. While some 5 pounds lighter than its big brother, the R6, the Pegasus R4 Thunderbolt drive is still huge, weighing about 15 pounds. My guess is that the price of the technology as a whole will come down quickly since the Thunderbolt ecosystem has become a lot more popular, with more and more vendors joining. The Pegasus R4 still costs about $1,000 for 4TB or $1,500 for the 8TB version, and you still need to buy the Thunderbolt cable separately. Just because Thunderbolt is now available for Windows doesn't mean it's noticeably cheaper.
Effectively, it marks the end of an era in which Thunderbolt storage was exclusively for Mac. From my trial with Intel's first Thunderbolt-certified motherboard, the switch of file system from HFS+ to NTFS (which can be easily done) is the only major thing you need to do to make any previously Mac-only Thunderbolt storage device work with Windows.Īnd you don't have to do that with the new Pegasus R4, since it also now comes preformatted for Windows. Now the Thunderbolt standard is available and works virtually the same for both Windows and Mac platforms. The drive was actually first released together with the Pegasus R6 more than a year ago, when Thunderbolt first came out for Macs exclusively.
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