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Extend the storage space on your computer and back up your important files with the CACE series external hard drive! This drive was designed with 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.
This review is from : Cavalry Storage CACE Series 750 GB USB / Firewire 800 Mac-Ready External Hard Drive CACE37750
Works great . I bought this drive to use a Time Machine backup. Regardless of the disk format, I always run a quick format and disk check just to make sure. The disk is fast and quiet. It's the second Cavalry drive I own of this type. The other is almost identical but has an esata interface and is connected to my DVR - a grueling task. That drive has been running flawlessly for over a year so I purchased this for light-duty backups.
Works great . I bought this drive to use a Time Machine backup. Regardless of the disk format, I always run a quick format and disk check just to make sure. The disk is fast and quiet. It's the second Cavalry drive I own of this type. The other is almost identical but has an esata interface and is connected to my DVR - a grueling task. That drive has been running flawlessly for over a year so I purchased this for light-duty backups.
Cavalry Storage CACE Series 750 GB USB / Firewire 800 Mac-Ready External Hard Drive CACE37750 Reviews
Excellent purchase . The Cavalry 1TB drive has been a great addition to my system. Used for mostly video recording, editing and DVD authoring, the Firewire 800 interface is the most used connection for me. The drive also has Firewire 400, and USB 2.0 connections ... I've found this to be helpful for chaining together older drives. It is durable, and has proven to be reliable thus far, after 8 months of continuous use.
Excellent purchase . The Cavalry 1TB drive has been a great addition to my system. Used for mostly video recording, editing and DVD authoring, the Firewire 800 interface is the most used connection for me. The drive also has Firewire 400, and USB 2.0 connections ... I've found this to be helpful for chaining together older drives. It is durable, and has proven to be reliable thus far, after 8 months of continuous use.
Cavalry Storage CACE Series 750 GB USB / Firewire 800 Mac-Ready External Hard Drive CACE37750 Opinions
Great for PC not for Mac . I've worked with 3 of these drives. Of the drives formatted for Mac one stopped working after a year, and the other one had to be formatted as FAT32 on a PC to work with a Mac, but works perfectly now. The one being used on a PC has been ticking for 18 months now without any trouble what-so-ever. Personally, I like the drive for a Windows box, but for a Mac I'd recommend G-Drive or CalDigit products, LaCie if you aren't worried about data throughput.
Great for PC not for Mac . I've worked with 3 of these drives. Of the drives formatted for Mac one stopped working after a year, and the other one had to be formatted as FAT32 on a PC to work with a Mac, but works perfectly now. The one being used on a PC has been ticking for 18 months now without any trouble what-so-ever. Personally, I like the drive for a Windows box, but for a Mac I'd recommend G-Drive or CalDigit products, LaCie if you aren't worried about data throughput.
Cons Review
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.
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.
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.
Defective design when used on a Mac . THE GOOD:
Solid case. It includes a particularly quiet, green (i.e. energy-efficient) hard drive and power supply in a high quality case, firewire 800 and USB cables, and a nice blue LED light, and on/off switch. 2 firewire 800 ports (for daisy-chaining). Note, it does come with a 800-800 cable NOT a 800-400 cable, contrary to the picture on the manufacturer's website, but this is arguably a good thing.
THE BAD:
1) This product was oversold. 2)It keeps making my Mac hang.
1[...]The spec page</a> claims "Sustained data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec".
I didn't get very close to that. EVER. I got an otherwise very respectable 69 MB/sec. But that spec led me to believe they were shipping it with one of the faster 1TB HDs, rather than the slowest one available.
I bought the drive specifically to use with my MacBook Pro at firewire
800 speed, namely the "Sustained data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec"
advertised.
With a firewire 800-800 (9-pin to 9-pin) cable,
the maximum read speed (on the fastest part of the disk) is 69MB/sec.
Quite impressive, but a ways from the sustained 100MB/sec advertised. I was expecting 85-95 MB/second.
[...]says there are TB drives that can easily meet this spec. What HD is
inside the CACE3701T0? A Western Digital WD10EACS, which the tomshardware link shows is the slowest TB HD - it can't reach 100MB/sec sustained transfer rates. The WD10EACS is a Caviar drive, so it has a 3-year warranty.
2)I noticed that when I had the drive attached, my Mac would freeze after a day or so, and would thaw if I unplugged the drive. Troubleshooting and Apple and Cavalry both being accommodating led to my logic board being replaced, and me getting an advanced-replacement unit. Well, the machine hangs with either Cavalry unit, while it's stable with no drive, or other external drives (I have 2 other firewire drives, though they're firewire 400, not 800.)
Also, it came rather poorly packaged - the foam blocks didn't hold the HD
properly in the cardboard shipping box.
Solid case. It includes a particularly quiet, green (i.e. energy-efficient) hard drive and power supply in a high quality case, firewire 800 and USB cables, and a nice blue LED light, and on/off switch. 2 firewire 800 ports (for daisy-chaining). Note, it does come with a 800-800 cable NOT a 800-400 cable, contrary to the picture on the manufacturer's website, but this is arguably a good thing.
THE BAD:
1) This product was oversold. 2)It keeps making my Mac hang.
1[...]The spec page</a> claims "Sustained data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec".
I didn't get very close to that. EVER. I got an otherwise very respectable 69 MB/sec. But that spec led me to believe they were shipping it with one of the faster 1TB HDs, rather than the slowest one available.
I bought the drive specifically to use with my MacBook Pro at firewire
800 speed, namely the "Sustained data transfer rates up to 100MB/sec"
advertised.
With a firewire 800-800 (9-pin to 9-pin) cable,
the maximum read speed (on the fastest part of the disk) is 69MB/sec.
Quite impressive, but a ways from the sustained 100MB/sec advertised. I was expecting 85-95 MB/second.
[...]says there are TB drives that can easily meet this spec. What HD is
inside the CACE3701T0? A Western Digital WD10EACS, which the tomshardware link shows is the slowest TB HD - it can't reach 100MB/sec sustained transfer rates. The WD10EACS is a Caviar drive, so it has a 3-year warranty.
2)I noticed that when I had the drive attached, my Mac would freeze after a day or so, and would thaw if I unplugged the drive. Troubleshooting and Apple and Cavalry both being accommodating led to my logic board being replaced, and me getting an advanced-replacement unit. Well, the machine hangs with either Cavalry unit, while it's stable with no drive, or other external drives (I have 2 other firewire drives, though they're firewire 400, not 800.)
Also, it came rather poorly packaged - the foam blocks didn't hold the HD
properly in the cardboard shipping box.
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Feature Cavalry Storage CACE Series 750 GB USB / Firewire 800 Mac-Ready External Hard Drive CACE37750
- USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible) and FireWire 800 (2) interface (unit supports daisy chaining)
- Plug and play for Mac OS 9.x or newer (pre-formatted to Mac OS X Extended)
- Oxford Semiconductor chipset guarantees cross platform USB 2.0 compatibility
- Unit Includes - One (1) year manufacturer's warranty, 750 GB 3.5-inch hard drive inside aluminum enclosure, USB cable, FireWire 1394b 9-pin to 9-pin cable, AC adapter, Stand and Quick Start Guide
- System Requirements - Available USB port or FireWire port, Mac OS 9.x or newer, Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista
Product Details
EAN : 0094922820747UPC : 094922820747
Brand : Cavalry
Color : .
Weight : 4 pounds
Height : 5 inches
Length : 11 inches
Width : 8 inches
Binding : Personal Computers
Manufacturer : Bason Computer, Inc.
Model : CACE37750
Publisher : Bason Computer, Inc.
Size : 750 GB
Studio : Bason Computer, Inc.
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