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The new standard in LTO tape archiving. Desktop and rack systems connected via SAS or Thunderbolt ports.
At the IBC 2025 trade show in Amsterdam, PROMISE Technology unveiled its new Promise Pegasus5 R12 desktop storage array. This elegant array was created for the latest Thunderbolt standard, Thunderbolt 5. Thanks to the use of the latest Thunderbolt technology, HDD and SSD NVMe drives, the array achieves transfer speeds of up to 6,000MB/s and is protected by a reliable hardware RAID system.
At next week's IBC 2025 trade show in Amsterdam, Sonnettech is set to unveil several exciting new products. Virtually all of them are designed from the ground up to support the latest Thunderbolt 5 standard. Here are some of the new products announced.
At first glance, it may seem that connecting a high-performance graphics card via an external eGPU enclosure limited to a Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, or USB4 interface with a port bandwidth of 40 Gb/s, or approximately 5 GB/s, should result in a significant performance drop. For comparison, a standard PCIe 4.0 x16 slot offers a bandwidth of up to 32 GB/s. Since the difference is more than sixfold, why are the actual losses in games and applications usually only 10%, reaching a maximum of 20%?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HP), International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and Quantum Corporation, technology providers within the LTO Technology Partnership Consortium (TPC), published the specifications for the 10th generation LTO Ultrium format in mid-August, which is now available for licensing.
