| | |  | Computer Accessories | Home » » Cavalry Storage CADA-U32A Series 2 TB USB 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA002U32A | | | | | | | Description: | | 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 2 TB (1 TB 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. | | | Features: | |
• 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) 1 TB 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
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 8.8 inches | | Product Width:
| 3.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.4 inches | | Product Weight:
| 5.8 pounds | | Package Length:
| 12.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 5.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Quiet, fault-free, better than mostJul 02, 2009
By Coyote
"Coyote Reviews"
I have tried many external hard drives as extra storage for massive quantities of photographs (professional photographer) and web-based projects including videos, documents, etc. This particular Cavalry 2TB external hard drive is flawless, instantaneously recognized and operable as plug-n-play, and easily modified for various 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 (lower quality housing, higher prices for lower storage capacity, two of six disc failures).
Do not hesitate on this CADA-U32A series . . . Excellent case quality, ease of use, high storage/lower cost, plug-n-play, silent, easily modifiable settings via jumpers.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
No problems after 4 monthsMay 26, 2010
By William E. Dunn
I received this drive in late January 2010. I connected the power and the USB cable. My computer running Windows XP SP3 instantly recognized the drive. The drive has operated flawlessly for 4 months. It is quiet and fast. The people who wrote the two-star reviews must have gotten bad drives. I have purchased 10 1 TB non-RAID drives over the past 18 months. The failure rate on these Seagate and Iomega drives was so high that I decided that RAID was the only way to go. Reviewers have coined the phrase "click of death" to describe the clicking sound that develops before a drive fails. Although the sound is very irritating because it foretells a major headache trying to get warranty repair on the drive, it at least warns you before a total crash occurs and all data are loss.
It is a bitter pill that one must spend $220 for 1 TB of backup when a 1 TB non-Raid drive can be purchased for $90 on sale. The question becomes "How much are your data and time worth?". I have several 5-drive Micronet RAID units that have operated for more than 4 yr without a single drive failure. I would buy another one of those in a heartbeat except that even now the cost is over $300 per TB of RAID storage.
The statistics are just not good enough on the Cavalry drive to know whether the drive has any quality control or maintenance issues. However, my experience has been thus far positive, and I recommend that you not make your buying decision solely on the negative experiences of a few.
I make no recommendation. I just relate my experience, so you can judge for yourself.
5 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Not plug-n-play with Windows XPSep 05, 2009
By Gary A. Curtis
"orageduval"
Be warned that this drive is definitely not plug-n-play with Windows XP. It did come configured for 1TB RAID-1, but Windows XP (two different computers) would not recognize it. What's wrong is that it is not partitioned for Windows, so the customer needs to initialize one or more NTFS partitions. Tools for that are available in Windows, but definitely not recommended for the casual user. Note also that the user manual suffers from severe translation problems, so if you will need to reconfigure the RAID level, and have never done this before, good luck. Now that I've done the factory's work for them, the gear does seem to work properly and is fairly quiet.
UnreliableMay 26, 2010
By C. Madden
"Blake Madden"
The unit I received was a lemon. It was surprisingly quiet--then I realized it was because only the fan was making any noise. Never heard any spinning or "wake up" sounds that you normally hear from an external drive. Couldn't get it to be recognized on either of my computers (via USB), and I talked to their tech support and they quickly came to the same conclusion.
I understand lemons happen and I would have given them another shot, but when I read their documentation all hope was gone. Riddled with baffling mistranslations ("rare view" all over the place, instead of "rear view"), their documentation was unreadable. If they can't be bothered to have a native speaker do a quick scan over their documentation then I imagine their product's quality control is just as sloppy.
LOUD!Feb 07, 2010
By Amazon shopper
"rk4321"
I have purchased a large number of hard drives, for things like Tivo extenders, computer backups, etc. They all vary in terms of performance, price, but the one thing that sets the Cavalry apart is how noisy the thing is. The fan(s) are always on whether the unit is being accessed or not, no low power or standby 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 speak for the performance as it is attached to my router's USB port as a networked disk. Had I known the noise level I would not have made the purchase.
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