Amazing!
I've been reading some good reviews about Cavalry lately, so I decided to give this a try. Turns out it was one of the best decisions I've made in a long time. My old external hard drive had a loud, annoying fan, but this drive is incredibly quiet. The black case is really nice, and the LED logo on the front looks great.
Decent product but OTB does not work
This external hard drive works, looks great, is small and silent. I installed the One Touch Backup software that came with it, but it does not work. I have to manually drag the folders I need to back up to the drive, in windows explorer. This takes more time, of course.
This review is from: Cavalry Storage CAUM Series 1 TB USB External Hard Drive (Black) CAUM3701T0-B (Electronics)
I've been reading some good reviews about Cavalry lately, so I decided to give this a try. Turns out it was one of the best decisions I've made in a long time. My old external hard drive had a loud, annoying fan, but this drive is incredibly quiet. The black case is really nice, and the LED logo on the front looks great.
I backed up all my files and I still have tons of room. 1TB for this price is an amazing deal. Bare drives cost more than this!
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I had never heard of Cavalry hard drives, but I read several positive reviews here on Amazon and decided to go with this one. I have not been disappointed. Here are some observations I've made on the unit:
Positive Aspects:
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- The drive looks very sharp.
- It has a good sturdy metal case and can be side mounted on a enclosed stand, or sit on 4 small rubber feet on the bottom of the unit.
- The drive has a power switch on the back of it (something a lot of USB drives do not have, for some curious reason)
- The front of the unit lights up to let you know when the drive is on, and when data transfer is taking place.
- The power adapter has a narrow shape that will fit in a surge protector and only take up the space of one plug.
- This drive is extremely quiet. Quite a few similar drives I have used are quite noisy. This one hardly makes any noise at all.
- Data transfer rate is quite good. I have been very pleased.
Negative Aspects:
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- I honestly have nothing negative to say about this unit in any way.
I would recommend this drive to anyone that needs extra storage space. I am using it in conjunction with Acronis True Image to do a full backup of my entire computer on a regular basis.
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This external hard drive works, looks great, is small and silent. I installed the One Touch Backup software that came with it, but it does not work. I have to manually drag the folders I need to back up to the drive, in windows explorer. This takes more time, of course.
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Worked right out of the box, no problems. I've had other external USB drives, but I was running out of space and it was a pain to have too many drives around.
I copied over files and photos and videos and I still have so much space left. It's wonderful.
I know I should have thought about this before, but I now need to figure out what to do to encrypt the data on this drive. I don't see that it comes with anything that allows me to do that. Seems scary to have all this data available, open and visible on the drive. I suppose I never worried about it on my smaller external drives because I mostly backed up photos that I didn't want to lose. But, now I've got EVERYTHING backed up. I better start looking for an encryption program.
I took some photos of the drive so that the size can be viewed. I'm not a great photographer, but hopefully they give an idea of how small and sleek it is.
I'll be getting another 1 TB external drive so I'll have two backups of all the computers. Seem like overkill? Maybe. But, that way I wont likely lose any data to a drive failure. With the prices so low on these now, it's worth it to me. It's especially important because I am responsible for more than just my computers in the family. It's hard to be the family 'computer nerd' sometimes! But, these large and very inexpensive drives help a lot.
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The product was received in good condition, preformatted in ntfs format. This allowed me to run a full backup of my computer using vista backup tool. No software had to be installed, though it came with a cd for automated backups.
Some aspects I would like to highlight for potential buyers are
The drive shows only a capacity of 931 GB instead of 1024 GB that one would expect from a 1TB drive.
In terms of warranty, this drive seems to offer what some of the bigger names do
Cavalry - 1 Year (Had never heard this brand, the price made me pick it)
Iomega - 1 Year
WD - 1 Year
except the following which offered greater lengths of warranty for their products
Lacie - 2 Years
Seagate - 5 Years
This product also came with a mail in rebate offer that requires visiting a site mir411.com. However, a visit to this site prompted an alert from my browser (chrome) that this site hosted malware do.qwertyy.cn. One might need to tread here with caution. Have notified amazon about this.
On other fronts,
- The power cord seems a little short (approx 3').
- The unit is not totally silent when no backup activity is occuring.
- The external finish of the product and accompanying material are not visually as appealing as from the more established drive makers.
The big test would be the longevity of the drive and this brand which I cant comment on at the moment as I got this today.
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I bought this item, it worked great for a month, then it started making clicking sounds trying to turn on. It sounds very physical like something is trying to engage over and over again. I got an RMA and returned it (I HAD TO PAY MY OWN SHIPPING), they sent me a new one pretty quickly. It is now making the same clicking sounds and I am sure will go out any day now. I went to Walmart and got the WD My Book for a cheaper price.
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Cavalry Storage CAUM Series 1 TB USB External Hard Drive (Black) CAUM3701T0-B. My Cavalry external hard drive has been in service now for several months. This is a replacement external hard drive so I have used this type of device previously and have a routine for backing up my computers with an external hard drive. It has worked without problem and with great ease. I recommend this product as it is great value for the money.
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It works great and you do not really realize how much a terabyte is untill you save all your movies and games that completely filled up your computer and see that the drive is only a tiny fraction filled.
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