Cavalry Storage CACE Series 1 TB USB / Firewire 800 Mac-Ready External Hard Drive CACE3701T0
Cavalry Storage CACE Series 1 TB USB / Firewire 800 Mac-Ready External Hard Drive CACE3701T0
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List Price: $ 139.99
best Price :$ 125.01
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- 32 MB Cache, 7200RPM
- Oxford Semiconductor chipset guarantees cross platform USB 2.0 compatibility
- Unit Includes – One (1) year manufacturer’s warranty, 1 TB 3.5-inch hard drive inside aluminum enclosure, USB cable
- System Requirements – Available USB port or FireWire port, Mac OS 9.x or newer, Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista
Extend the storage space on your computer and back up your important files with the CACE series external hard drive. This drive was designed for ease of use with a Mac in mind and works well with Time Machine. The CACE is Plug and Play with Mac OS 9.x and higher, and with FireWire 800 you get blazing transfer speeds of 800Mbps, almost double that of USB 2.0. The CACE boasts exceptional heat dissipation, remarkable durability, state-of-the art shock absorption, and superior all-around performance. The enclosure is solid aluminum, keeping the hard drive operating at a safe and cool temperature while protecting the data within. Its stackable design ensures a clean and uncluttered workplace, while the dual FireWire 800 ports support a daisy chain of multiple drives to minimize wires to your computer.
List Price:$ 139.99
best Price :$ 125.01
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about 9 months ago
Awful,
The drive arrived…and was defective. It constantly disconnected and re-connected itself…randomly. I’d be in the middle of trying to send a file to the drive and a message would pop up saying the drive had been improperly disconnected and data might have been damaged/lost. It certainly wasn’t me who disconnected the drive – the drive disconnected itself. Or – while simply surfing the internet, not even trying to use the drive, I’d get the same error message popping up…suddenly: the drive has been disconnected improperly. Then, all on its own, again, the drive would re-connect itself. On and off, shorting in and out; a horrible glitch…making the drive completely unreliable/unuseable. I called the manufacturer for tech support. They wouldn’t talk to me on the phone, insisting that I email tech support – which I instantly did. I emailed them 3 times over 3 days and got nothing in response…by phone or email. Finally – tech support did call me…only to say what I already knew: “the drive is defective.” I’d never heard of Cavalry, it was the least expensive drive with that much space available – I took a chance. An old friend of mine always said “the cheap pay twice.” My advice is: pay only once by buying from a quality manufacturer to begin with. Don’t gamble on cheap. Or you’ll be paying, as I am now, to ship the item you bought in good faith – and received in bad shape – back to Amazon. Awful.
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|about 9 months ago
USB maybe OK, but FireWire definitely not,
I learned pretty quickly why this drive had such a low price. It is because it doesn’t work.
I have an iMac. I plugged this in with firewire and the drive immediately appeared and I was able to copy files to and from it. That lasted 10-15 minutes. After that the Mac Finder stopped responding and I had to turn off this hard drive to get it to snap out of it. Several similar attempts later, I turned it off and left it off.
A couple days later, I thought I’d give it a try using USB instead. This time it seemed to be working fine and gave no problems working with it for over an hour. It continued to be fine for several days (I only used it sporadically), but one day the Finder froze up again and once again I had to turn off this hard drive to get it to wake up. It has since worked fine on USB (about a week) without another lockup.
I don’t feel at this point that this drive can be trusted at all. As a firewire drive, it is completely unusable. As a USB drive it is unreliable. I don’t feel secure in putting any important data on this drive, not being sure if I’ll get that data back.
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