Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 1 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA001U32A

Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 1 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA001U32A Review

Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 1 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA001U32A Feature

• USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible)
• Plug and play 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) year manufacturer's warranty, two (2) 500 GB 3.5-inch 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

Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 1 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA001U32A Overview

When your computer is your life, why take the risk of losing memories? Get automatic backup in one elegant package: The CADA-U32 Series offers an unbeatable combination of RAID data protection, a vast storage capacity of 1 TB (500 GB mirrored), and ease of use. This dual-bay drive features swappable hard disks and a built-in RAID chipset controller and arrives preconfigured in RAID 1 to protect your important data - if one drive fails, replace it with an identical drive 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 ideal 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 important files.

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Customer Reviews

Died right after the warranty wore out, like a cynical comedy - Christopher Burian - Waltham, MA USA
I went cheap and bought this Calvary to store family photos. Right out of the box, the unit only worked for USB but not for Firewire (saw the drive in My Computer but couldn't actually access it) on WinXP Home. Then died--had some kind of internal electronic failure 13 months after buying it, no warranty coverage. The files are still present on the bare drives inside the Calvary box, I can mount the individual drives with a USB/SATA dongle to get the data off, but it's not a RAID anymore, no longer usable. Will never buy another Calvary product and instead I'm shopping for a LaCie 2-big right now, deliberating between NAS and USB/Firewire for home use.

If it had a more reasonable warranty (3 or 5 year) and thus it had been fixed instead of retired, then I'd have given it either 2 or three stars. It ran very hot, fan was kind of loud.



Noisy. Otherwise satisfying. - Daniel Brockman - Petaluma, CA USA
The good news is I just plugged it in to my USB port on my Windows XP machine, and it worked right away, just like it should. The bad news is the machine is very noisy. I've wrapped a towel around it to make it (barely) tolerable. Unless Cavalry offers some assurance of noise reduction in future models, I'll buy a different manufacturer's drive next time. Indeed, the idea of getting rid of this one crossed my mind. For now, it's wait and see. If it weren't for the noise, I'd give it 5 stars.