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Category: Personal Computers
Brand: Cavalry
Model: CADB01U32
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Cavalry CADB01U32 Review
Cavalry CADB01U32 Review by Bill Rankin
1 TB of potential storage. Actually it's two disks, initially set up to mirror each other, in case one disk bites the dust. In that configuration, you get "only" 500 GB of storage capacity, but a little more security. You can reconfigure it to use the full 1 TB if so desired. A little noisy, but since I use it only for backup, that's not much of an issue. The package didn't come with the instructions for reconfiguration, but a call to customer support quickly remedied that.
Cavalry CADB01U32 Review by A. Blocher (Dallas, TX USA)
Other purchasers have complained about the loud fan so I was expecting the worst. I wasnt nearly as put off by the noise from the fan as other users have been. Its all relative, I guess. I am only using the drive to store music and video, so I only turn it on when I need to transfer data to or from the drive. It transfers data very quickly.
So far I am very pleased!
Cavalry CADB01U32 Review by ƒůŽźŸ ωŬ&#... (Denver, CO)
Fuzzy Wuzzy's Summary:
**** Recommended with warm fuzzies.
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)
***** Excellent 5-fuzzies feature ratings:
***** 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.
*** Not-so-good 3-fuzzies feature ratings:
*** 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!
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Cavalry Storage CADB-U32 Series 1 TB USB 2-bay JBOD Personal Disk Array CADB001U32:: Technical Details
- System Requirements - Available USB port, Mac OS 9.x or newer, Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista
- Large 2" fan for added cooling
- USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible)
- Plug and play for Windows 2000 and newer (pre-formatted to NTFS)
- Unit Includes - One (1) year manufacturer's warranty, two (2) 500 GB 3.5-inch hard drives installed in a dual bay enclosure, USB cable, AC adapter, Resources CD and Quick Start Guide
- Item Dimensions: 9 x 4 x 6 inches; 0 pounds
- Brand: Cavalry
- Model: CADB01U32
- Product Type: Personal Computers
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