Cavalry Storage CADB-U32 Series 1 TB USB 2-bay JBOD Personal Disk Array CADB001U32
PRODUCT FEATURES:Pre-formatted hard driveUSB 2.0 interfaceHot swappable plug and play
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Cavalry Storage CADB-U32 Series 1 TB USB 2-bay JBOD Personal Disk Array CADB001U32 Reviews
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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).
In reading all of the past user reviews, it is obvious that Cavalry has been varying the hardware configuration of this drive over time. So hopefully I will not ever have to dicker with Cavalry about having removed and reattached that "Warranty Void" sticker. 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. Previous reviews also mentioned that the fan could be turned off separate from the drives.
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. Who would have thought that one could buy 1 TB of disk space for under $200. 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. 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. 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. But with this drive, to reconfigure how the drive is partitioned, you have to unscrew the back panel.
But with the unit that I received, there is only one power switch, and turning that on turns on both the drives and fan. 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. 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.
Less than a year ago we bought the old Calvary CADB001U32 external harddrive, and I couldn't be happier. 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. I believe another reviewer had a DOA unit, and I wonder if all s/he had to do with format the drives as well. 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. 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). 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 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).
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. I can't believe they were going to have me send the unit back for that. I also noticed there is no external SATA connection and no option to turn the fan off. Like another reviewer I called Cavalry customer support, and they were absolutely no help. 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). 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.
after opening it and formatting the drives one by one it is working good. the company Cavalry should improve upon the process so that they don't commit mistakes. It seems, warranty sticker doesn't mean anything. And when I connected it, the laptop didn't recognize it. i liked the product overall.
got for 190 bucks and it is a good price for a this purchase. I called customer care and they asked me to open it and check the disk. I bought this product a few days back. It was able to show the new hardware but no disks were being shown. it has got western digital hard drives inside.
if somebody says their drives failed they should blame western digital and not cavalry. I knew that the disks inside are inserted without the initial formatting. it is not much noisy as lot of people complain.
Clearly, I favor the more reasonably priced drives. The fan keeps these guys cool, and they are and streaming music most hours of the day. 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.
And no, I am not affiliated with the company, as I suspect when people gush about a product, hotel, etc. What more can you say. 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. The big green power light, and 2 red lights that indicate when the drive is being written to or read from. They are pleasingly designed metal boxes, which 3 lights on the front.
Nada. $250 for 1TB. Crazy cheap, especially given the quality construction. I just like the drives. I have been using the drives for 5 months now, and they work just as well as they ever have.
No problems. 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.
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