BACKGROUND
Eldon Snelgrove is a freelance 2D artist who specialises in the use of Autodesk Flame visual effects, finishing, and colour grading software at his company Eldonvfx Ltd, as well as running Post Production at We Love Images, a digital creative studio. Eldon required a storage system with high throughput capability as well as RAID redundancy for the secure storage of large amounts of client data assets. As his workload increased, the existing infrastructure was not adequate and a high performance RAID storage system that could be easily incorporated into his existing Mac setup was needed.
SOLUTION
The PROMISE Pegasus32 R6 with Thunderbolt™ 3 delivered exactly what was needed. Eldon was well-acquainted with the PROMISE Pegasus line. As an early adopter of Autodesk Smoke on his Mac in 2010, he used the PROMISE Pegasus R6 with the then brand new Thunderbolt technology. Eldon told PROMISE the system was a “workhorse, reliable, and fast that worked seamlessly with Autodesk.” His experience with PROMISE made him a repeat customer, “easy to setup and configure, reliable, with unbelievably fast read/write data speeds, quiet and secure.” Though he did not require help during this installation process, Eldon told PROMISE that the sales and engineering support team were excellent, prompt and helpful when he had questions about later upgrades...Learn More