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| Cavalry 1TB CADB USB 2.0 2-bay JBOD Disk Array PC Formatted | 
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| Brand: Cavalry
Category: CE
List Price: $182.99
Buy New: $172.51
You Save: $10.48 (6%)
New (9) Used (1) from $172.51
Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 18103
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 3.7 x 6
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: CADB01U32
Model: CADB01U32
UPC: 094922668196
EAN: 0094922668196
ASIN: B000T0C46Y
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 1TB total capacity in BIG configuration | | • | (2) 500GB drive partitions in JBOD configuration | | • | User-configurable to JBOD or Spanning (BIG) | | • | Hot Swappable Plug and Play design for Windows 2000 and newer | | • | Transfer rate of 480Mbps (USB 2.0) |
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Product Description
PRODUCT FEATURES:Pre-formatted hard driveUSB 2.0 interfaceHot swappable plug and play
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Good but too NOISY, really! June 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own one of these. It works fine, but the unit gets very hot after a few minutes of operation, and you have to turn the fan on. This fan is too noisy, I will not recommend this external hard disk if you work at a quiet room.
Great price, inconvenient drive reconfiguration, poor tech support. June 6, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Who would have thought that one could buy 1 TB of disk space for under $200. Although I have only had this drive for one month now and do not know how reliable it will be, the price makes it a great buy for use in backing up files and/or to store bulky music/photo files on it.
In reading all of the past user reviews, it is obvious that Cavalry has been varying the hardware configuration of this drive over time. While previous user reviews mentioned receiving a drive that was configured as 500-GB of disk space mirrored onto both drives in a RAID-1 configuration, I actually received my my drive pre-configured as one single 1-TB NTFS partition. But I actually wanted the configuration to be arranged as a 500-GB RAID-1 mirrored pair of drives, and the user's manual gave no indication of how to do this. A call to Cavalry's tech support ended up with me being on the phone with them for over one hour trying to figure out how to reconfigure this from being a single 1-TB partition to instead appear as a single 500-GB RAID-1 mirrored partition. Their tech support had me remove the ominous "Warranty Void If Seal Is Broken" sticker on the back panel, unscrew the back panel, and reposition a 3-pin jumper to cover the other two-pin pairing. This resulted in two separate 500-GB partitions, which was better suited for my needs than one single 1-TB partition, but after spending over one hour on the phone with Cavalry's tech support trying various jumper settings and re-partitioning on Windows XP, I could never get the drive to act as a singled mirrored 500-GB partition and finally settled for the configuration of having two separate 500-GB partitions. Cavalry's tech support person started sounding clueless when I told her that the switching of the pin jumper did not work, and she admitted that they have shipped varying configurations of this drive as time went on.
Some of Cavalry's other drive models have a dial on the rear panel that you can use to configure the RAID and disk layout that you desire. But with this drive, to reconfigure how the drive is partitioned, you have to unscrew the back panel. Cavalry's tech support then told me to stick the "Warranty Void If Seal Is Broken" sticker back onto the rear panel after I had gave up on trying to make it a mirrored drive configuration and just settled for having two separate drive partitions. So hopefully I will not ever have to dicker with Cavalry about having removed and reattached that "Warranty Void" sticker!
Previous reviews also mentioned that the fan could be turned off separate from the drives. But with the unit that I received, there is only one power switch, and turning that on turns on both the drives and fan. So now the fan has to run when the drive is turned on, which is probably a good thing given the compact form factor of the case.
The big red light that glows constantly on the front panel when the power is on, for some reason, always reminds me of the eerie HAL9000 light in the "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie. On some nights when I work in a darkened room, I almost expect it to blurt out: "I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen..." (begin "Twilight Zone" music)
Old version is much better construction... April 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Less than a year ago we bought the old Calvary CADB001U32 external harddrive, and I couldn't be happier. It is built like a tank, had USB and SATA connections...the only complaint (like others have listed) is it is LOUD when the fan is on, which makes the fan off option handy. Much louder than my 1 Terabyte Western Digital My Book external drive (which does not have a fan built in, not sure how safe that is). In any event, we liked the harddrive so much that when we noticed it dropped in price we decided to buy another one. When the unit came, what a disappointment! They changed a few cosmetic things, but most notably the case seemed less solid...which I know is just cosmetic. I also noticed there is no external SATA connection and no option to turn the fan off... Although the new fan is quite a bit quieter than the old one (which may be the reason why some say it is loud and others say it is quiet). I imagine it must be safe to run the Western Digital drives with a smaller/quieter fan, being that Western Digital My Books external drives don't even have fans (again not sure how safe that is, but I've had mine for nearly a year with no issues what so ever). Performance wise the 2 drives are identical...but I would give the old version 5 stars and the new one 4 stars for the missing options I listed above (no fan off option & external SATA connection). Like another reviewer I called Cavalry customer support, and they were absolutely no help. I had a very minor issue and their answer was just to send the unit back for a new exchange or a refund...when all I had to do was just initialize both drives. The old Cavalry unit was pre-formatted and my desktop automatically recognized it when I plugged it in, so that confused me for a second until I figured it out myself...which involved going into the device manager and formatting both drives, and then I was back in business. I can't believe they were going to have me send the unit back for that. I believe another reviewer had a DOA unit, and I wonder if all s/he had to do with format the drives as well.
Great Product - Poor Company April 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this product a few days back. And when I connected it, the laptop didn't recognize it. It was able to show the new hardware but no disks were being shown. I knew that the disks inside are inserted without the initial formatting. I called customer care and they asked me to open it and check the disk... It seems, warranty sticker doesn't mean anything... after opening it and formatting the drives one by one it is working good... it has got western digital hard drives inside... i liked the product overall... the company Cavalry should improve upon the process so that they don't commit mistakes. if somebody says their drives failed they should blame western digital and not cavalry... it is not much noisy as lot of people complain.... got for 190 bucks and it is a good price for a this purchase.....
 Good price for a quality-build 1TB drive April 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought two of these things to store my digital music collection on (which is approximately 1.6TB). These replaced my old set of 250GB LaCie drives. Clearly, I favor the more reasonably priced drives. The first thing that struck me relative to my old LaCie drives is how much more solid the construction of the drive housing on the Cavarly drives is. They are pleasingly designed metal boxes, which 3 lights on the front. The big green power light, and 2 red lights that indicate when the drive is being written to or read from. The fan makes noise, but I don't understand the expectations of people who buy a pair of drives and expect it to sound like a paperweight. The fan keeps these guys cool, and they are and streaming music most hours of the day. I have been using the drives for 5 months now, and they work just as well as they ever have. No problems. Nada. What more can you say? $250 for 1TB. Crazy cheap, especially given the quality construction. And no, I am not affiliated with the company, as I suspect when people gush about a product, hotel, etc. I just like the drives.
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