| Product Summary | | Manufacturer: Cavalry | | Mfg Part#: CADA002SA4 | | UPC: 00949226960524 | | Buy.com Sku: 204389695 | | Item#: C2KEF6 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 55811 | | View similar products |  |
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| | | | Product Guides | | | | | The 4-bay CADA-SA4 is the ultimate in RAID data protection, massive storage capacity and 3.0Gbit/sec eSATA transfer speed. This powerful RAID subsystem comes in a 4-bay array with swappable hard disks and RAID controller with PCI express host adapter. Preconfigured in the ultra-efficient RAID 5, you keep 75% of total capacity while securing your important dataif one drive fails, replace it with an identical drive and the data will automatically rebuild.
This drive supports RAID levels 0, 0+1, 5 and RAID 5+hot spare, and offers automatic background rebuilding (in RAID 5). Its SATA interface provides a speedier boot process, faster loading of programs and data, and enables rapid sustained transfer SATA II data transfer rates of 3.0Gbits per second.
Ideal for saving hefty files, video, music, protecting databases or working directly on the drive, it delivers high-capacity performance and data security. Pre-initialized with RAID 5 and ready to use after some simple setup; just install the host adapter and RAID software.
| | Features |  | (4) 500GB 7200RPM SATA II drives | | Supports RAID Levels 0, 0+1, 5 and RAID 5+hot spare | | 2TB at Raid 0; 1.5TB Useable at Raid 5 | | Factory pre-configured in RAID 5 | | Transfer rate of 3.0Gbps (eSATA) | | Tray-Free swappable design | | Large 3 fan |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Value |  5 | | Performance |  4.5 | | Ease of Use |  4 | | Overall Satisfaction |  3 |
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4 of 5 Great price for the product. Friday, November 30, 2007
A Customer from Norfolk, VA
This item is a good value, and includes everything you need, however be prepared to do a little setup before you can use it. Mine included a faulty driver cd, and the drivers were not easy to find. I had to go to the silicon website to get the drivers for the chipset and bios version included. There are many different bios versions, so make sure you have the right one before attempting to install it. Once I got it working, there were no problems. Be aware that you pay less because you will not get much from the Cavalry website if you have problems. Was this review helpful?  
3 of 5 Cavalry 2TB Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Huck scotthuck@cedarville.edu from Cedarville, OH
I did a lot of research on getting a quality RAID 5 HD. After e-mailing w/ support at Cavalry, I was convinced that this was a good machine for me to get. After purchasing the HD, I quickly found out that it does not work as a RAID 5 on my MacBook Pro. It works great as a JBOD or a RAID 1 ... but not a RAID 5. Right now it is a great big paper weight! Tech support does not know the difference between a MacBook Pro and a Mac Pro. Was this review helpful?
3 of 5 RAID 5 NOT supported on Mac OS! Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Video Dude from Portland OREGON
This is a great price for this, the lowest I could find. And at $649.99 it's even about $200 cheaper than I paid for it in June, and I still think THAT was a good price. BUT... I couldn't get the RAID 5 to work on the MacOS. First they thought it was the card. Then the software. And I got stuck in the no-man's land between Cavalry and the card manufacturer, with each company's rep telling me it was the other guy's problem. Went through countless driver installs and etc. Finally, FINALLY, after 3 weeks of this the card manufacturer looked at something online, checked some specs, and then did a mea culpa and said, "Oops! Sorry. You know what? RAID 5 isn't supported on the MacOS." Decided to keep it anyway because I needed the storage space. But I really wanted that RAID 5 redundancy and one big, virtual megadrive. Oh well. Was this review helpful?
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