Cavalry 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - CAUE37500 - Pre-Formatted as NTFS

The price was right and the performance was ok for system backups. One catch...you want you system backup to be usable. Disk crashed after about 4 months of use. Not much of a life span. Using a Seagate FreeAgent at work and home now.
 
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I bought one last year and I have used it frequently near one year till now. I never met any problem. It is compact and doest not occupy much space on my desk, although it is not "baroque" as Seagate or WD. It is really a wonderful Data Storage.
 
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This prodict it's amazing! I love it!
 
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just like that my all data is lost (400gb), i do not suggest to buy this product.
 
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I've had this HD for about a year and use it for archival purposes. Recently the blue LED quit working. It has not affected the performance and sometimes the LED is on. It is a great price for a great product.
 
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I have four of these drives now and no problems for over a year. I'm writing this to tell you that it is easy to format the drive as ext3 and attach it to Linux Fedora 8 or Fedora 6. I used gparted which is a one step gui tool that you can install with yum install gparted. Linux always recognizes the drive immediately when you turn it on and it mounts as /media/disk automatically.
 
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My first drive lasted six months without errors, then suddenly issues appeared and eventually the drive died. The support issued an RMA and eventually received another drive which after I used it to back up my system died two days later! Based on my reading online the quality of these drives is a roll of the dice. It appears (I have not confirmed mine due to the warranty seal) that they use reconditioned drives and therefore the great price. I am going to spend the extra dollars for the Mybook 1T drive and forget about this one.
 
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I had ALL my music on this external. Without any warning, it crashed 5 months after I bought it. I can't blame it for losing all my music, that is my fault, but anything that crashes after a few months of "normal" use should be re-evaluated.
 
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perfect device for bulk storage, flexible to use and quite fast with 7200 rpm,i like it baby!!!!!
 
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This was a good value, money-wise. The product arrived promptly and worked out of the box with no set-up. I was disappointed that the base sent with the unit did not fit, as it appears to be for a different model. This makes me suspect the overall quality control that goes into the unit. So far, however, I have backed up two machines with the drive and it has worked well.
 
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I wanted something to hold my music and photos. This device is great and easy to use. Just plug it in and use it!!
 
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external is very easy to use just plug it in no software just start up and use. nice led to show when its working, stackable well worth the money. Buy.com was very easy to deal with even with the free shippng item came when they said even a day early. Would definatley buy from them again.
 
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I've been using this hd for almost a year now, and I can't complain. I tried at least four different manufacturers; some are bulky, others have performance issues. For its price, this drive is unbeatable. Although this drive can be operated in both vertical and horizontal orientations, it tends to get extremely hot in the horizontal orientation. Linux users should keep in mind that this drive is NTFS formatted; ntfs-3g and fuse libraries sometimes fail to mount the drive properly. I recommend reformatting the filesystem. PS: This drive somehow emulates SATA on boot, so it is possible to install an OS right on the external!
 
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I bought two of these separately at two different time and submitted rebate forms. Six months later, the rebate checks still haven't shown up. But that's not the worst part. Now, for the two drives, one has died and the other one is dying (showing more and more errors). The first one started with more and more errors and eventually became unfixable even if I reformat it, or even repartition it. After sending back to the manufacturer, they sent me back a new one. Apparently, it's really not repairable. Am I really lucky or is this the average quality of their drives?
 
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I've had this for over 6 months now, and it has performed flawlessly, I like the fast transfer speed and huge capacity. Everything I can say has probably been covered by other reviewers, but since I've had it over 6 months I thought I'd let others know that I have had a good experience so far. Got my rebate as promised and it has worked well for me - I use it for backups, streaming video and music, and so far haven't had any issues at all that were negative. The only possible negative is the cord for the ac adapter is a little loose and could be unplugged easily if you're not careful. I like the blue light that flashes purple when it is reading or writing. Note: you can improve performance of it in windows by going to the device manager and go to it's properties to optimize performance. You just have to be more careful in unplugging the usb cable by going to the icon on your taskbar to safely remove the drive.
 
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I have 3 of these now.... I love them, they are quiet and I back up all my DVD's and music directly to them.... I can burn DVD's directly from them too... I have a Lacie which sounds like a Model T Ford when it runs....... These are much better... P.S. To the (Owner of this Site) get all your suppliers to make their instructions in PDF format.... Help save a couple thousand trees... The instruction book for the Lacie had about 40 pages... Only one in English, that was useless anyway!
 
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I previously bought a 16 gig jump drive (from another vender 6 months ago) so I could have something portable with which to easily transfer data from one system to another (without having to connect to it through a network). It works but 16 gig is still too small for my uses. Then I saw the Cavalry 500 gig drive and WOW! I did my research and discovered this drive was very highly rated and the price!!! The price was $30 less than my jump drive! This drive, though not as small as the jump drive, is portable and it can do wonders. It's very easy to connect and it is fast! And at $125.95, how can anyone pass this up? So I bought two! I have been using both, one on my PC and one on my iMAC. I couldn't be happier.
 
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If you want to have a lot of extra space for your files and downloads with this small investment, then Cavalry 500GB is your brand. It also works quietly.
 
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I have been using this drive for just over 6 months now and I'm glad I bought this drive. You can use this drive right out of box, as it's pre-formatted with NTFS. This saves a lot of time to convert from FAT32. The data-transfer rates are very fast. I use it like a internal hard-drive (though it's not the exact intended use), and I play quite performance demanding games from this hard-drive. There are no signs of "slow" game-play. In all, you would'nt be disappointed with this drive. I would definately recommend it to my friends.
 
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This drive performs great. I've had no problems with it at all.
 
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This is an awesome product for the price compared to other brand names. I bought 2 back in March 07. One for me and one for my Mother in Australia. So far nothing has gone wrong. I accidently left the drive on for 3 days and it was fine. I left it in the car for 2 weeks during summer and that was fine too. The one is Australia uses an adapter to change the current and that one works fine too.
 
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I have no complaints with this drive. It works as expected and have had no problems. I just hope the rebate will come through to make the final price worthy of the purchase.
 
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It is exactly as promised. Was probably the easiest piece of hardware I have ever installed - actually all I did was plug it in. All of the other reviews were right on - works great, easy to install but does run hot. Great product for the price especially with the rebate.
 
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Pro's - ease of use, transport and lots of space for a very reasonable price. I use it for storage and transfer data. Con's - so far so good, didn't have any. Have it for over a month.
 
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this is my second drive and its performance is really good and worth for such low cost.
 
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Easy to setup and use. Fast access for reads and writes. Only negative is that is runs hot, so have area with good ventilation.
 
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Pros: Very quiet and sturdy. It performs very well for my purposes which is a back up drive. Cons: It does seem to run hot and does not have a cooling fan. The light is very bright and lights up my room at night. I haven't had any problems with this drive and I have been running it 24/7 since I have gotten it. The packaging was good and the instructions and set up were a breeze. I recommend this product.
 
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performs as promised.
 
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Very easy to use for storing lots of data from different computers. Great deal for only $90.
 
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Unwrap it and plug it in. It just works. Both MAC and PC. Performs as well as an internal IDE drive over USB2. Quite, seems to stay cool. Should have bought 2 for the price I got... $95 after rebate.
 
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The hard drive is fast for the most part however sometimes the t'fer will stop in the middle of a large transfer then resume. Biggest annoyance is the weight of the external hard drive, it becomes quite an annoyance to constantly carry around - so much so that I have stopped carrying it around in my laptop bag and intend to only use it when travelling and having some expectation of use.
 
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This has worked very nicely as a backup drive for both my PC and my wife's laptop. Just plugged it in, and was recognized immediately. Great for backing up my system, and for backing up my video files. Highly recommended
 
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there are always 2 parts to the on-line purchasing experience: 1) is the product what you expected? For the price, this drive is great. its big, it hasn't crashed on me yet, and when I plugged it in, I started using it with no muss no fuss. 2) did it arrive on time? was it packaged well? was there a boot print on the box? The thing arrived in a few days, nice and clean. It was obviously shipped on time, so there are no complaints to be made.
 
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I chose this model because of the sale price running at the time. It was the cheapest 500gb on the market and didn't disappoint when it came to ease of use and perfomrance.
 
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I run my music off of the HDD. It may run a little hot but don't be scared. Let it cool if you are really paranoid, or keep it near a fan, AC vent, or window sill and let the wind keep it cool. Very nice external, took a while to ship though.
 
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As I read previous reviews, I was made aware of the 465 Gig instead of 500 Gig and the difficulty to install the stand. Knowing that formatting eats some memory was not a problems. Installing the stand was not complicated either if one noticed the track for the nuts on the side of external hard drive. It performed as promised right out of box. Thanks
 
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I bought this products from buy.com and was delivered to me within 5 days. This came preformatted in NTFS so I did not have to re format it. It was as easy as plug and play. I used it to back up my data and it worked very smooth. The 16 MB cache helps in faster data transfer. Overall I am very happy with the product. I do not use it regularly but use it once every 15 days to back up my stuff and then I disconnect it. So far I am a very satisfied customer. Its 465GB and not 500 GB - I guess this is the case with every 500 GB drive. So if you have more than 450GB of data to back up - look for 750GB or 1TB product. For me, 500 GB is enough for another 2-3 years.
 
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I bought the Cavalry 500GB drive in may07 mainly to use it for mp3 and back-up's. It worked okay for 3 months until recently I noticed the drive was making humming noises. Now the noise is quite noticeable and it is annoying every time I turn it on. I bet the heat generated from the drive has something to do with it. I hope it doesn't die on me before I move my back-up's else where. I recommended a friend to buy the Cavalry drive and he too noticed the same. I wouldn't buy Cavalry again.
 
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I bought one of these just for the drive...lured in by the cheap price and the rebate. I opened up the case and found that the WD5000AAKS inside is a recertified drive. It works fine, but I feel like I was misled.
 
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I've had these for about 3 months and they work great. I bought 2 and turn them on only when I'm ready to back up my data. I can't comment on how hot it gets if left on for a long period of time. This is an awesome value for the hard drive space.
 
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The drive was easy to set up and immediately began working with no glitches. The performance speed was alittle slower than I expected, not as fast as my older firewire drives, but the price compared to the amount of storage you get still gives this drive a good value rating.
 
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Great product. Works wonderfully,
 
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No issues setting it up, plugged in and it worked. Been working for several months without incident. Good buy for the money.
 
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