Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 2 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA002U32A
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- USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible)
- Plug and mess about for Windows 2000 and newer (pre-formatted to NTFS), preconfigured to RAID 1 (mirrored, total usable capacity is halved in RAID 1)
- Configurable to RAID 0 and 1
- Unit Includes – One (1) time manufacturer’s warranty, two (2) 1 TB 3.5-creep hard drives installed in a dual bay enclosure with built-in fan, 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
Product Description
When your notebook is your life, why pocket the risk of bringing up the rear memories? Get automatic backup in one elegant package: The CADA-U32 Series offers an indomitable amalgamation of RAID data protection, a substantial storage capacity of 2 TB (1 TB mirrored), and ease of use. This dual-bay guide features swappable hard disks and a built-in RAID chipset controller and arrives preconfigured in RAID 1 to protect your vital data – if one guide fails, replace it with an identical guide and the data will automatically rebuild. Leave it in RAID 1 for automatic background rebuilding and optimum security for your files, or reconfigure to RAID 0 for increased data reading and writing speeds. The CADA-U32 is ultimate for saving and protecting files, video, music and photographs, delivering high-capacity performance and redundant data security. The unit is factory pre-formatted in RAID 1 mode and ready to use out of the box; just plug it into your USB port to start securing your vital files.
Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 2 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA002U32A
Saturday, May 15th 2010 at 6:56 pm |
I have bought a large number of hard drives, for things be fond of Tivo extenders, notebook backups, etc. They all vary in stipulations of performance, price, but the one business with the intention of sets the Cavalry apart is how noisy the business is. The fan(s) are always on whether the unit is being accessed or not, no low power or defend mode. On the plus side, it does have a nice footprint, and the cost seems reasonable given the size of the disks. I can’t converse in for the performance as it is attached to my router’s USB port as a networked disk. Had I known the blast level I would not have made the buy.
Rating: 2 / 5
Saturday, May 15th 2010 at 9:15 pm |
I have bought dozens of hard drives over the years – including raid devices. Irrevocably – a perfect device – on all fronts
1- Simple to get up and running
2- RAID mode is simple to complex and use – I use RAID 1 to keep an extra copy of all files
3- Silent operation – super silent!
4- Price is incredible – It would be a fantastic price for just 1TB – but you are being paid 2 TB
5-Quick operation – I have it plugged into a shared device on my (Apple) wireless network – and access time from remote machines is quick – nearly as quick as if it were connected directly to my mainframe. READ and WRITE are quick.
Rating: 5 / 5
Saturday, May 15th 2010 at 11:27 pm |
Be warned with the intention of this guide is certainly not plug-n-mess about with Windows XP. It did come configured for 1TB RAID-1, but Windows XP (two different computers) would not admit it. What’s incorrect is with the intention of it is not partitioned for Windows, so the consumer needs to initialize one or more NTFS partitions. Tools for with the intention of are available in Windows, but certainly not recommended for the casual user. Annotation also with the intention of the user blue-collar suffers from severe translation problems, so if you will need to reconfigure the RAID level, and have never done this before, excellent luck. Now with the intention of I’ve done the factory’s work for them, the gear does seem to work by the book and is honestly silent.
Rating: 2 / 5
Sunday, May 16th 2010 at 12:10 am |
I have tried many external hard drives as extra storage for massive quantities of photographs (certified photographer) and web-based projects including videos, documents, etc. This particular Cavalry 2TB external hard guide is sound, instantaneously recognized and operable as plug-n-mess about, and easily modified for innumerable JBOD and RAID formats. Far, Far, Far Better than the Western Digital My Book series (noisy, disc failures, awkward installations, and system lockups) and Iomega (decrease quality housing, higher prices for decrease storage capacity, two of six disc failures).
Do not hesitate on this CADA-U32A series . . . Brilliant case quality, ease of use, high storage/decrease cost, plug-n-mess about, silent, easily modifiable settings via jumpers.
Rating: 5 / 5