Promise has introduced two concepts in the Thunderbolt line; a medium-sized hardware RAID option and a very unique interface to fiber networks. Promise has always designed products leaning toward permanent installation, so its no surprise their concepts were 4 and 8-drive RAIDs that produced incredible speeds to a laptop. They have a reputation for providing very powerful drive solutions, and these look to be no different.
While the fiber interface doesn't apply to me, or many with small-to-medium sized facilities, it is a great example of how versatile and powerful Thundebolt really is. A small box converts the connector into a typical fiber cable, designed to give full-speed access to high-speed SANs. There's no proprietary software to install; the box plugs in and the network drives simply appear as a drive. Promise had a huge multi-drive multi-terabyte SAN setup as an example, and the data speeds clocked on a laptop were ridiculous; the fastest on any Thunderbolt setup I've seen yet.
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