Cavalry Storage 32 GB Pelican Series USB / SATA II 2.5 inch Internal and External Solid State Drive (SSD) CASD00032MIS

by Cavalry

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 0.3 x 2.8 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CHVT5A
• Item model number: CASD00032MIS
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 8, 2008

Product Description

Capacity: 32 GB

The Cavalry Pelican Internal/External solid state drive is the superlative replacement for your standard 2.5 inch hard disk drive, delivering silent operation and the greatly enhanced durability, performance and power efficiency of solid state technology. With no moving parts, the Pelican does not need to spin up to write or seek files like a conventional hard disk drive, delivering considerable increases in performance while greatly reducing the risk of mechanical failure. Inside thin and light and ultraportable laptops, this incredible drive simultaneously extends your battery life, increases computing performance and insures the safety of your data, all the while operating in complete silence.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the price, March 22, 2009

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Nathan Marshall (Iowa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 128 GB USB/SATA II 2.5 inch Internal and External Solid State Drive CASD00128MIS (Personal Computers)

This product is a fantastic replacement for any notebook drive, but be aware that if you are booting vista, because of the constant read/write procedures that are built in, you won't notice much of a difference in performance between this and a standard 7200 rpm drive. That having been said, its super reliable and if you boot another OS it shows a marked improvement. Also keep in mind that this is by no means among the fastest of the solid state drives available, but it is also significantly less expensive than others. If I could go back, I probably would have spent the extra to get a quicker drive, but ultimately if you are simply looking for something slightly faster than a normal hard disk and much more reliable, you will not disappointed with this product.

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Techie Christmas present, 64GB Calvalry SSD, December 29, 2008

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Derick Moore (Colorado Springs) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cavalry Storage 64 GB Pelican Series USB / SATA II 2.5 inch Internal and External Solid State Drive (SSD) CASD00064MIS (Personal Computers)

Now I have to get a new laptop!

Because my 3 year old laptop doesn't have a SATA interface, I'm in the market for a new PC!

This drive is just short of awesome. Boot time for XP is about 1/3 of what it was, and the fact that I can carry my 'brains' on so portable a drive is wonderful. (I remember when a couple of floppies were enough)

I didn't get to play with it until the 26th, and I'm still in the process of loading it up with all my tools.

As I develop SAS/SATA BIOS software, it also fits well into my test/development goals. Instead of hauling a laptop from place to place, I can now, in many cases, just put my development environment in my pocket and take it with me. With so many dissimilar PC's to hook up to, I don't know if I can use it for booting everywhere, but I can surely have my editors/debuggers/compilers and test tools handy.

It barely gets above room temperature when sitting on a desk (using USB), though it feels warmer when running off a SATA connection (probably because it is nearer the computer), it don't think heat will ever be a problem unless I set it on the dashboard in a hot car.

I have 16GB, 4GB, 1GB, and a couple of 512MB thumb drives, but they can't measure up for comparison. This is a real hard drive, and it's real fast too.

Derick

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OH YES., April 2, 2009

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FISH (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 128 GB USB/SATA II 2.5 inch Internal and External Solid State Drive CASD00128MIS (Personal Computers)

This drive is lightning fast. The 2.5" form factor let me drop it right into my laptop... EASY PEASY. I'm never going to worry about shock damage to the drive. My battery life improved, and the system is nice and cool.

Take a look at the photo... there's also a mini USB output. If I ever decide to get a new system, or want to upgrade, I'll just pop the drive back out and use it as a ultra rugged pocket drive.

I'm so happy. Thanks Amazon. Thanks Cavalry.

Did I mention THIS DRIVE IS FAST?

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