ACP-EP USB 2.0 External Hard Drive - CAUE37500 - Pre-Formatted as NTFS
Cavalry 500GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive

I can only say excellent things about this company. I have had trouble with seagate and maxtor drives at early staged of there life. This cavalry drive has held up with lots of use. I write and erase to my drives twenty four hours per day because I run a recording studio. I know that I use my drives much more than the average user and these drives have held up for over two years now, whereas the other major brand name drives such as Maxtor and Seagate have died after less than one year due to the extreme amount of workload I put on them.
 
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So far I have purchased seven (7) of these CAVALRY External Drives: (2) 750GB (1) 1 TB (4) 500GB They are on 24/7 and I have had no problems with them at all. I find they provide great value for the price.
 
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I bought this hard drive a year back. it is realy good and it works fine as of now. I bought 500 GB for 100 USD. I did not find any problem as of now. I would like to recommend this to people.
 
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After my Iomega drive crashed, I was ready for a new brand. This Cavalry drive works great. Never a problem. I am about to buy my 4th Cavalry ext HD. Definitely the way to go as a wedding photographer.
 
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I've seen some of the other reviews claiming this drive has conked out soon after opening. Not for me! I've been using the drive for about three weeks now, leaving it on continuously, and I have experienced no problems whatsoever. The drive is pretty much as advertised: no frills but sturdy, quiet as a whisper, plug and play, easy to reformat (I'm using an originally PC-formatted drive with Mac OS X), and dependable. Since I'm using it mostly as a backup drive, I haven't had much chance to test access speeds, but I have booted from it with excellent results. I was a little concerned because Cavalry makes identical drives that are "Mac ready" (and charges more for them), but you might as well save a few bucks and reformat yourself; your Mac will recognize it out of the box and reformatting with OS X's Disk Utility is easy as pie!
 
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Had drive for 1.5 years and this week it died. When I checked the warranty, I realized that it is only for 1 (one) year. So beware.
 
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No problems so far. I have been using it to store all my info. from my computers harddrive while doing a major systems rebuild. I reinstalled everything fine. Using it now to store h.d. home videos until I have more time to burn them. It came ntsf formatted and ready to go. Computer recognised it immediately. No mention of it but mine came with eSATA connector.
 
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This is my 2nd Cavalry Drive and it performas up to expectations and the price is unbeatable. Readily recommend it.
 
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Works like it should, I haven't seen any problems with it. It is perfect and easy to use. I will probably be buying a second one if all countinues to be well with this one soon. Overall very happy with the product. Meets geek standards!
 
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using it on my Apple iMac with 2 partition, one for backups the other for extra data storage. Very reliable, nice unit.
 
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Only had the drive for less than a month. Easy hook up, started working within 2 mins. Transfered a ton of media . and all appears well.
 
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This drive came with all the needed cords (power & USB), a vertical stand, and a one-page info sheet from the manufacturer. Simple. But, plug it in, and start using it, and you realize you don't need anything else. Recognized easily using Vista. No noise at all. No delay as drive kicks on out of "sleep mode" (as my Western Digital did). Great storage solution for the cost. If you want good back-up software (since this drive comes with none) download the freeware SyncBack. Totally free and easy to use.
 
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I bought this because of price and because of the eSATA as well as USB connections. It works BUT it overheats easily. My apartment was plain and simply too hot at 85degF to use this device. Once the heat broke and my apartment stayed in the 70s this device has been flawless. Bottom line - if you can keep it cool it's okay but it doesn't radiate heat well and WILL lock up your entire PC requiring a reboot if it gets too hot.
 
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I have used this drive for a over a year and it is perfect. Fast and pretty rugged. It has actually dropped on the floor from a desk more than once (although not running at the time) and it still works perfectly.
 
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Drive is as advetised. Plugged it in and it worked. I have only had it less than a month and so far, so good.
 
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I am using this Cavalry 500GB USB 2.0 external hard drive as my data drive and backing it up regularly. Given that it doesn't have an internal fan, I am pleasantly surprised at how cool it appears to run. It is quiet, responds instantaneously, and was a breeze to hook up to my PC. I've been running it 24x7 for three weeks now and no problems whatsoever. I highly recommend this drive to anyone needing external and/or portable storage. Would make a great backup drive for the price, too!
 
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Not much to say, except that the drive does what it's supposed to do, without any glitches in my experience. You plug it into the wall, you plug it into your computer's USB port, the OS recognises it, and away you go! No muss, no fuss. Just what a hard drive is supposed to do, I think! Hope that helps! Guy
 
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Received the drive and hooked it up to an old 500Mhz PC running Ubuntu 8.04 (headless box sitting in the corner as a file/print server). The PC recognized the drive no problems. I reformatted the disk for ext3. I now back up the content portion of the fileserver everynight via a cronjob and rsync. Flawless performance up till now.
 
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Great drive for the price. Up and running in minutes.
 
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Very quiet. Have been using it with my iMac and have not had any problems yet. Could not pass up the deal from Buy.com.
 
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I have compared the Cavalry 500GB External Hard Drive to a few other units and this unit beats the competition hands down....it is a quiet unit....The low cost...the ease of use and the capacity is excellant 500GB(465 GB)and reliablity for the money...i would refer this unit to any one(actually i did...to my brother and he is happy as well).
 
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Copying 50G takes about 2 hours from my laptop. There was no installation process with XP Media Center SP 3 ... "just plug & play".
 
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Only used a small part of the memory, but manufacture seams very helpfull in answering question and going out of their way to make sure everything is top notch and working.
 
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Wasn't advertised as eSata, but it is. Needed to buy the cable (I already had an eSata port on my newer desktop) for $9 on eBay and now backups are faster. Just don't forget, if you're backing up from a slower internal (or external) drive, the speed will only be as fast as your SLOWEST drive. I have an internal sata drive, and going from that to this external eSata, is like lightning. Drive is quiet also. Have had no heat issues.
 
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Good: Hardly any heat at all. No fan, so no noise. Bad: Says 500GB, only 465GB useable space. Why don't they say it's a 465GB hard drive? All in all, I like it better than the Lacie HD I bought for more money.
 
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Very nice product. Works as expected. Quiet, fast, not expensive. Works right out of the box. Tested on both Windows and Linux. No any additional drivers were needed. Works just fine. Shipping and delivering was fast. What else do I need? I would recommend buying this product from this seller.
 
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Very good so far, great price and it seems to work just fine.
 
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excellento - used to think 13 gig was a big deal
 
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It is quiet. Arrived in a very short time and that is with free shipping. Must have shipped from the company. Part of it came out of its styrofoam? but seems to be OK. No complaints so far
 
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We have had the unit for about 3 weeks now. We purchased it to backup data.When we received it we promptly connected it to our desktop (an HP with Windows XP - Media and SP3 installed). We had to reboot for the drive to be recognized and since then it has worked quietly and efficiently behind the scenes. We have not seen any problems described in other reviews. The size and price were right.
 
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I have two of these. The first one has been running fine for over a year and I just got this second one. They are easy to setup and quiet to run. Highly recommended.
 
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Using with XPtype2, plugged in and was running just like a flash drive(only bigger). I have offloaded a lot of files from the hard drive. Since that was the purpose, I am happy. It does get warmer than I expected, but the case stays far below 60C so it should be alright.
 
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I bought this for saving regular back-up of my computer data. It works well for this function and the price is outstanding.
 
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This is the second big Calvary drive I have bought. The first was a 1TB. I bought this one to use as a Time Machine BU for my Mac on a wireless network. Works great. Easy install.
 
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This hard drive has been a lifesaver! It is super quiet and super cool! I have transferred over all of my music, documents and pictures, taking the pressure off of my pc. I have had the hard drive for a few weeks now and it is working great!
 
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This drive seems to be super. Took it out, plugged it in, gave it a drive letter and it worked. It seems to be very speedy and I love the easy to get to on/off switch. I am mainly using it to backup digital media. Of course, with storage the real proof of it's value can only be seen over time. Right now it's about as nice of an external hard drive as I've used.
 
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Very basic drive - no software (doesn't need it) - just plug and play. Only had it a couple weeks so can't speak to durability - all drives seem to be the same these days. Very quiet - Excellent price.
 
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I have only had this external drive for a little over a week, but all I have to say for it so far is good. It works as expected and it was a piece of cake to set up and use. Just plug it in and go. A real value for the money.
 
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Mine doesn't work. I copy data to the drive and it locks up. (not responding) a few minutes into the copy. If I hadn't already chucked the box I'd send it back
 
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This drive *extremely* quiet (like half the noise output of another identical drive I purchased made by Fantom Drives). I realize that this is 100% a factor of what manufacturer's hard drive is *inside* the enclosure (and I have not opened the enclosure to determine the brand and model). However, just wanted to note that as of June 2008, Calvary is using an extremely quiet hard drive. On sale at buy.com for 80 clams at the time, for 500GB. It's a no-brainer. *********NOTE TO NOVICE MAC USERS**************. This drive (and almost all its competitors) is formatted for Windows (NTFS). First thing you need to do is connect it to your Mac, then launch "Disk Utility" (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility). Select the drive and click on "Erase" (which is the Mac equivalent of Windows' "format").
 
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I just had it, will see how it works, but it is a good deal.
 
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My drive died after about 6 months, with about 500 CD's on it. I was pretty upset, but then got some great advice on salvaging the drive--to extract the drive and put it in a new USB enclosure. I bought a new SATA enclosure on line ($25), put in the drive, and voila! it worked! Now the drive works (I don't know for how long of course), but at least I backed it up immediately onto a new hard drive. Definitely try the USB enclosure switch if your drive dies--apparently it's effective 50% of the time. Even the drive manufacturer didn't suggest this possibility when I wrote to them to ask for help.
 
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Work straight out of the box. Very quiet and pretty small in size. I am happy. After transferring all my stuff, I still have a lot of space.................
 
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I'm a first time buyer to Buy.com and you have me hooked already! I purchased this product because of the price, which I couldn't believe at first, but dove right in and ordered. The ordering was so very simple and quick and the product arrived well within the time specified, in fact, much sooner than I expected. Installation was just a matter of plugging the hard drive in and my Compaq Presario recognizing the new drive! I was in business almost immediately. It has now been three or four weeks since using it and I have been more than abundantly pleased. In fact, so much so that in about another month, I am purchasing another one for my older son to use on his computer. I have backed up movies and CDs and cataloging my audiobooks and what a blessing to have all this memory!! All I can say is: Buy.com, thanks for making the leap into buying products from you such an outright joy! I will definitely be back!!
 
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This is my 5th 500gb Cavalry..... Great drives, great price and great customer service if you need it.... Had a Lacie, it quit without notice........ Am considerering the 1tb model next time...... Store all my movies, music and pictues.....
 
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Shipped on time. Great price. Ambivalent reviews... bought it anyway and am sorry I did. The drive worked for all of ten minutes and quit. Shipping to the repair facility is on my tab! I am waiting to see if it really gets fixed or replaced and if the next try is any better. This has been a waste of a month. Previous reviewers have alluded to the "roll of the dice" with these units...... such is the case.
 
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i have only had the unit for a couple of weeks. pluged it in and away we went. no problems so far. Did a complete Windows backup and restore image the next day. good thing because i had to restore my laptop a week later. glade i had the backup.
 
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It's a little heavy for an external hard drive but it's worth it for the price. Plus mine came with a bonus eSata connection (without the bracket and cable); almost seems like they only have one model (that is with SATA) but depending on which one you want to pay for, i.e. you pay slightly higher for the eSata option and get it or just pay for the USB option and get eSata for free :) Nonetheless, had it for a week and works like a charm.
 
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I love this hard drive. Cheap and reliable so far. The only thin is that it came pre formatted NTFS and i use a mac. So had to remove all data and re format. great product.
 
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I have had it running for 3 weeks with no issues. It was very easy to install and use. More "bang for your buck."
 
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I've had the item for 3 weeks now and it works great right out of the bix. Easy to use and set up. Quiet running. Love it. Great deal.
 
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