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| Customer Reviews |  | | Value |  3 | | Performance | 3 | | Ease of Use | 3 | | Overall Satisfaction |  2.5 |
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1 of 5 Not worth! Thursday, January 08, 2009
A Customer from Belle Mead, NJ
I tried with 2 units and it did not work with new computers Was this review helpful?  
1 of 5 Buy something else Thursday, May 29, 2008
A Customer from Louisville, KY
I'm on my second non-working drive. I'm just going to give up on it. It's not worth my time or effort to try to get this drive working. On the plus side, "At least I won't have to buy a paperweight for my desk." Was this review helpful?
2 of 2 customers found this review helpful.
2 of 5 Half of it Works Right Thursday, March 20, 2008
akemper2 from Dayton, OH
I bought this unit back in Feb'08. The thing I like most about the unit was the ability to have eSATA speed in a portable. My experience with the unit was both good and bad. The good part was that using the drive via the USB cord worked just fine. This seems contrary to what several users reported for Cavalry's earlier model the 60GB Enclosure, this unit worked like a charm via USB. The Bad however, was the eSATA feature. I am an experienced tech when it comes to these drives. I have built over 50 of them in various brands and types and understand how they are suppose to work. I tried everything under the sun to get this Cavalry drive to be detected in eSATA mode. By the way, you MUST have an extra 5Vdc cable attached to use this drive in eSATA mode. I never got the drive to be detected in the BIOS much less Windows. It was as if I did not even have the thing plugged in. I tried three different powerhouse servers to get this thing to work. Results were comparable to plugging the eSATA cord into a rock. I sent my drive back to Buy.com for a replacement. If the eSATA function does not work on the replacement, Well, then I guess it's my own fault for not listening to others negative comments about Cavalry USB drives. Go for a Western Digital or Maxtor drive instead. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Excellent! Monday, March 17, 2008
Alina from Maryland, Baltimore
I would recommended this hard drive. Excellent quality, small and light, easy to use. Was this review helpful?
5 of 5 Portable harddrive Sunday, March 16, 2008
A Customer from Bloomfield Hills, MI
Easy to use, works well, quiet, good value. Was this review helpful?
3 of 5 good hardware, unclear instructions and software Saturday, March 15, 2008
A Customer from Charlotte, NC
I bought this drive hoping to finally master a 1-button back-up procedure and, alas, it hasn't done it for me (yet). The hardware seems good, solid, reliable, up to specs, but the software (to automate back-up and operate the one-button back-up) is obscure - and that's being charitable. The manual explaining the software and the operation of the button is even worse: terse and in wierd English.
I'll keep trying, and will probably eventually figure out how to make use of it, but for now all I have is a compact and inexpensive USB drive. It does come with an added interface that is supposedly much faster than USB (SATA and eSATA - Google them for specs), but my computer is not compatible with this and it must be new as I haven't seen references to it. It would be indeed superb is one could transfer data at the advertised SATA and eSATA rates and I'm hoping to figure it out one day. Was this review helpful?
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