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Cavalry Storage CADB-U32 Series 1 TB USB 2-bay JBOD Personal Disk Array CADB001U32 | 
| Brand: Cavalry
Category: CE
Buy New: $151.99
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 8221
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Hard Drive Size: 1000
Size: 1 TB
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
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible) | | • | Plug and play for Windows 2000 and newer (pre-formatted to NTFS) | | • | Large 2" fan for added cooling | | • | 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 | | • | System Requirements - Available USB port, Mac OS 9.x or newer, Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
PRODUCT FEATURES:Pre-formatted hard driveUSB 2.0 interfaceHot swappable plug and play
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
Super simple December 29, 2008
Richard V. Mullen
Plug it in and turn it on. It is ready to use in about 15 seconds depending on your computer speed. Mine came default working at 1TB so all I had to do was plug in and turn it on. Movies play perfect off of it but it is a little noisy (about as loud as a whisper). It is built like a tank compared to those plastic versions so it should take an accidental kick under the desk. One downside is the toggle switch is on the lower back of it.
 Reliably Good December 20, 2008
Experteo (Siloam Springs, AR USA)
I got this about 2 months ago and it has run without a hitch. The fan is not as loud as some people claim. Maybe they were earlier models or something. In my opinion, this fan is relatively quiet and that's speaking from the perspective of it being on in a small quiet dorm room. One thing for sure is that this drive has two 500 GB hard drives inside (actually each drive is 466 GB or something, but that's marketing for you). I mainly keep this off most of the time and just turn it on for backing up my 500 GB Western Digital External Hard Drive and my laptop as well. I actually managed to catch this for sale at $130 after watching the price for 8 months. $65 per 500 GB hard drive is a steal compared to all the other 500 GB hard drives out there. In time there will be better deals, but this hard drive has been good for me. Remember people, always have a backup of all your data because you never know when you hard drive will fail after at least 1 year of constant use.
 Good but too NOISY, really! June 27, 2008
R. D. CAJINA (FL)
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
Bond... James Bond (Denver, CO)
5 out of 6 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
A. Park (Chicagoland, IL USA)
3 out of 3 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.
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