Are Promise Pegasus2 R8 Bays SATA II or SATA III

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James Lee posted this 2 weeks ago

Are Promise Pegasus2 R8 Bays SATA II or SATA III?

Unable to find the information anywhere... Looking to populate my R8 with with SSDs 

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Babatunde Akinkuolie posted this 2 weeks ago

Hello James,

Please find below the compatibility list for all drives that have been tested exclusively with HDDs. These drives are SATA III.

https://www.promise.com/DownloadFile.aspx?DownloadFileUID=6600

 

James Lee posted this 2 weeks ago

I know the disks are SATA III but in the manual it says it only supports 3Gb/s SATA. So i wonder is this a misprint or does it only support SATA II or can it do SATA III

 

R P posted this 2 weeks ago

Hi,

As you probably know...

SATA I = 1.5 Gbs

SATA II = 3 Gbs

SATA III = 6 Gbs

From the Pegasus2 in the lab.

cliib> subsys -v

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alias:
Vendor: Promise Technology,Inc.        Model: Pegasus2 R6
PartNo: F29DS6722000000                SerialNo: N/A
Rev: B3                                WWN: 2000-0001-5557-d5e8
CBSN: M92L14101600019                  Interface: Thunderbolt

cliib> phydrv -v

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PdId: 1
OperationalStatus: OK
Alias:
PhysicalCapacity: 2TB                  ConfigurableCapacity: 2TB
UsedCapacity: 2TB                      LogicalBlockSize: 512Bytes
ConfigStatus: Array0 No.0              Location: Encl1 Slot1
ModelNo: TOSHIBA DT01ACA2
SerialNo: 14E814BKS                    FirmwareVersion: MX4OABB0
DriveInterface: SATA 6Gb/s             Protocol: ATA/ATAPI-8

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PdId: 2
OperationalStatus: OK
Alias:
PhysicalCapacity: 2TB                  ConfigurableCapacity: 2TB
UsedCapacity: 2TB                      LogicalBlockSize: 512Bytes
ConfigStatus: Array0 No.1              Location: Encl1 Slot2
ModelNo: TOSHIBA DT01ACA2
SerialNo: 14E812NKS                    FirmwareVersion: MX4OABB0
DriveInterface: SATA 6Gb/s             Protocol: ATA/ATAPI-8

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PdId: 3
OperationalStatus: OK
Alias:
PhysicalCapacity: 2TB                  ConfigurableCapacity: 2TB
UsedCapacity: 2TB                      LogicalBlockSize: 512Bytes
ConfigStatus: Array0 No.2              Location: Encl1 Slot3
ModelNo: TOSHIBA DT01ACA2
SerialNo: 14E7X63KS                    FirmwareVersion: MX4OABB0
DriveInterface: SATA 6Gb/s             Protocol: ATA/ATAPI-8

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PdId: 4
OperationalStatus: OK
Alias:
PhysicalCapacity: 2TB                  ConfigurableCapacity: 2TB
UsedCapacity: 2TB                      LogicalBlockSize: 512Bytes
ConfigStatus: Array0 No.3              Location: Encl1 Slot4
ModelNo: TOSHIBA DT01ACA2
SerialNo: 24EEJM2TS                    FirmwareVersion: MX4OABB0
DriveInterface: SATA 6Gb/s             Protocol: ATA/ATAPI-8

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PdId: 5
OperationalStatus: OK
Alias:
PhysicalCapacity: 2TB                  ConfigurableCapacity: 2TB
UsedCapacity: 2TB                      LogicalBlockSize: 512Bytes
ConfigStatus: Array0 No.4              Location: Encl1 Slot5
ModelNo: TOSHIBA DT01ACA2
SerialNo: 24EEJLHTS                    FirmwareVersion: MX4OABB0
DriveInterface: SATA 6Gb/s             Protocol: ATA/ATAPI-8

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PdId: 6
OperationalStatus: OK
Alias:
PhysicalCapacity: 2TB                  ConfigurableCapacity: 2TB
UsedCapacity: 2TB                      LogicalBlockSize: 512Bytes
ConfigStatus: Array0 No.5              Location: Encl1 Slot6
ModelNo: TOSHIBA DT01ACA2
SerialNo: 14E87DPKS                    FirmwareVersion: MX4OABB0
DriveInterface: SATA 6Gb/s             Protocol: ATA/ATAPI-8

cliib>


I know the disks are SATA III but in the manual it says it only supports 3Gb/s SATA.

Which page of the manual says this?

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