Comments on: Cavalry Storage CADA-C32A Series 2 TB USB / Firewire 400 & 800 Mac-Ready 2-bay RAID Personal Disk Array CADA002C32A

By: SCRZ

SCRZ — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:03:27 +0000

If you can believe it, the company said that it lost at least part of their serial number list and had me send in a picture of the label with the serial number on it.

Then a customer service rep admitted that four other customers recently had the same not-found serial number problem with the company.

After two months the FireWire port started to drop off the network. The only way to have the RAID drives sync again would be to switch to a USB connection on another computer. But as the FW problem worsened, writing to the drive would unmount it.

Customer service was very slow to issue an RMA number because they had lost the serial number.

Amazon customer service graciously said to send it back for a 20% surcharge. Fine with us.

By: John R. Hutchinson

John R. Hutchinson — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:18:03 +0000

I’ve had this drive since 6/2009 (three months ago as of writing this review) and it has operated flawlessly. I use Firewire 800 and mirrored RAID so one drive backs the other up. Both drives are in perfect working order and this drive gets A LOT of use. I mean _a lot_. I host a file service with this drive that involves gigs of transfers daily. So far, there have been no heat or stability issues with not a single random disconnect or data loss. We’ll see how long it lasts under these conditions, but knowing that the chances of one driving giving up the ghost before the other in a mirror setting like this, I’m not at all worried about losing my data. I’ll simply open up the enclosure and replace the dead drive before it’s an issue.

Highly recommended, from a data nerd who respects proper backup.

By: Gregory A. Dane

Gregory A. Dane — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:27:53 +0000

I have had this drive for a few months now. I have it set up as a mirrored RAID drive. I own a photography business and obviously cannot lose data. I use firewire 800 on an iMac. Works great and gets lots of use. I will buy another when I need more storage.