Cavalry Storage CAUI Series 500 GB USB External Hard Drive CAUI37500

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The CAUI Series external hard drive offers practical storage expansion in a sleek aluminum package. It's a no-frills approach to the external hard drive: everything you need, nothing you don't. Just plug it in and start storing data instantly. The external hard drive's solid aluminum enclosure boasts exceptional heat dissipation for near-silent, fan-less operation. The CAUI is remarkably durable, offering state-of-the art shock absorption and superior all-around performance, and its stackable design gives you a streamlined, uncluttered workplace.
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- USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible) interface
- Plug and play for Windows 2000 and newer (pre-formatted to NTFS)
- Hard drive activity LED
- Unit Includes - One (1) year manufacturer's warranty, 500 GB 3.5-inch hard drive in a single bay aluminum enclosure, USB cable, stand, power adapter and Quick Start Guide
- System Requirements - Available USB port, Mac OS 9.x or newer, Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista
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 "great service" 2009-06-07
By Kenneth J. Rice (cool, ca)
these people were great and the product works good. The first one I ordered was defective. I called the company and they were extremely nice. They agreed to send another one but said if I ordered it through amazon the shipping would be free. The second drive has been tropuble free.

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 "Great Product" 2009-04-26
By Michael Visconti
This device works exactly as it should. I have owned it for a couple of months now and have not encountered a single problem. I use a computer running Windows Vista and there are no compatibility issues. Very affordable and reliable, worth the money.

 "Cavalry...." 2009-02-21
By Recard Thompson (Cayman Islands)
Ummm I don't know much about the technical stuff but this product is a bit slow I had one before which was pretty fast and work well but if you are looking for something that's cheap then this a good bet....

 "A reliable drive" 2009-02-20
By C. Thompson
I use this drive as a primary backup device on my iMac G5. It worked fine out of the box and has been reliable for nearly a year. It is quiet and runs cool.



I consider it a good value and would buy another. I would be pleased to give a 5-star review, but the screws shipped for mounting the stand did not match the holes. I simply stand it on edge and it works fine.

 "no problems to report" 2009-02-07
By C. Conciatori (Bardonia, New York United States)
I have used this a few times have had no problems. I've used it as a giant USB drive that I just plug in and then drag folders into it that I want to have a backup off or want to move to another computer. It was just what I was looking for and at a great price.


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Western Digital 500 GB AV PATA 7200 RPM 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive WD5000AVJB

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Significant design advances in WD's hard drive technology, combine optimized AV performance with best-in-class power consumption and thermally optimized operation enabling unparalleled cost of ownership for manufacturers of digital video recording devices.With a MTBF of 1 million hours, these drives are designed to last in high temperature always-on streaming digital audio/video environments such as PVR/DVR, DVR recorders, and surveillance video recorders. Noise levels have been minimized to less than one sone - virtually below the threshold of human hearing. WD AV drives deliver best-in-class low power consumption for reduced system power requirements and increased reliability. They are tested for compatibility in a broad range of AV products including set top boxes, DVD recorders, and mainstream surveillance systems.
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 "Good A/V drive for DVR upgrades" 2009-08-06
By Craig D. Shaw (Austin, TX USA)
This is a very quiet A/V drive I used in a series 2 TiVo upgrade. It was the highest capacity parallel interface A/V optimized drive I could locate. My only concern is that it seemed to get a bit hot when I copied all my data over to it. I did not measure the current drain; the specs. claim it is quite low. Having the drive use low energy is a major consideration for DVR applications for two reasons. Since it runs 24/7, low energy use has the least impact on the environment and utility bills. If is uses a lot of energy it will also likely generate a lot of waste heat, which will shorten the life of the product it's used in and add to my overall cooling load, further contributing to environmental and utility bill impact.

 "crazy price" 2009-01-28
By Robert D. Cowart (Berkeley, CA, USA)
This drive lists on Amazon elsewhere for $79. There is something wrong with this listing.



Good product though. Just the wrong price.

 "Fast, quiet, outstanding drive for the money" 2008-08-04
By Corvette (States)
This drive is very fast and quiet, and priced just right. The three year warranty makes it worth every penny.

 "Western Digital 500GB Pata 7200rpm 3.5 Inch Internal Hard Drive" 2008-08-03
By Ernest L. Jones (Canton, GA)
I upgrade SA8300HDC DVR to from Western Digital 160GB to WD 500GB PATA drive and it's working 100%. The internal upgrade allows for 60hrs HD programing and 300hrs SD programing.

The speed and quiet operation is better than expected. This drive was designed for internal DVR and video recording units. The built-in software format and initlized the 500GB within ten minutes.

 "Perfect drive for aTivo" 2008-04-13
By Brian Fuchs (Thousand Oaks, CA USA)
The "AV" in the model number means it's designed for continual use in a Tivo.


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Western Digital 500 GB AV-GP SATA Intellipower 8 MB Cache Bulk/OEM AV Hard Drive WD5000AVVS

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Power-conserving WD AV-GP SATA hard drives take advantage of WD's GreenPower technology to meet the extreme requirements of demanding audio and video environments. With power reduction of up to 40%, they deliver cool and quiet operation and reliability perfect for audio video applications such as PVRs, DVRs, Set-Top Boxes (STBs) as well as surveillance video recording.
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 "Nice drive, quiet drive" 2009-05-08
By M. B. Clark (Washington State)
Arrived quick, too! I bought this as a replacement for my dead Tivo drive. Now I can no longer hear my Tivo in the living room (OK, maybe the fan if I concentrate, but the ticky-ticky of drive access is gone. Going from 80GB to 500GB for $60 is incredible (and for $100 at the time I got this, a 1TB drive was almost irresistible--but I had to admit I would probably never use that much extra storage and I really wanted to revive the Tivo for as little $ as possible.)

I did not pay attention to the fact this is a PATA drive, and my Tivo only has a SATA cable. A Tivo community forum recommended this exact drive and I just went with it. You might have same issue if your PC only has traditional SATA cables and interfaces. I found a SATA-PATA adapter for $6 on Ebay and it worked great.




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Cavalry Storage CAXM Series 500 GB USB / eSATA External Hard Drive CAXM37500 - Includes eSATA Kit

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The Cavalry CAXM37500 3.5-Inch 500 GB SATA External Hard Drive is superb external mobile solution for all your data storage needs. The hard drive features an aluminum casing to keep the pre-installed 500 GB SATA hard drive nice and cool to extend the life of the drive. The CAXM37500 supports an incredible transfer rate of 3 Gbps (SATA) and 480 Mbps (USB 2.0), making it easy to add storage to any system with either SATA or USB connectivity. And with it's portable design, plug and play, and hot-swappable connection, Cavalry makes it hassle-free to take your data with you anywhere.
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Technical Details

- eSATA kit included!
- USB 2.0 (USB 1.1 backwards compatible) and eSATA interface
- Plug and play for Windows 2000 and newer (pre-formatted to NTFS)
- Unit Includes - One (1) year manufacturer's warranty, 500 GB 3.5-inch hard drive in a single bay aluminum enclosure, USB cable, eSATA kit (eSATA cable and bracket), stand, and power adapter.
- System Requirements - Available USB or SATA port, Mac OS 9.x or newer, Windows 98SE / Me / 2000 / XP / Vista
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 "a true piece of junk" 2009-09-12
By albert kline (Elkins Park, PA USA)
The first one shipped to me lasted only several weeks. The replacement lasted two years (out of warranty). In both cases my data could not be recovered.

 "13 Months Then DEAD" 2009-08-03
By David G. Pelowitz (Los Alamos, NM USA)
If you plan to use the drive as a backup, DON'T. It has been running fine for about a year now and then all of a sudden it started having problems... When turned on it would show up (USB) for an instant then go away and would repeat this for possibly 5 minutes. Eventually it would calm down and either be available or not until I power cycled it and the whole thing would start over again. The point of this is at under a hundred bucks you get what you pay for. It was a good backup until about a week ago. If you plan on using the drive as a "working" drive and you don't mind a failure (e.g. you've got everything on it backed-up) then caveat emptor!

 "Installs and works like a charm" 2009-06-20
By G. Nigrosh (Massachusetts)
Smooth and easy install on my Vista-64 laptop and Vista desktop. Setting up folders and backup schedule (using Genie-Soft)to only minutes.

Only reason for 4 stars rather than 5 is the need to set up on each machine since it can not work off of a router or USB hub

 "Useful" 2009-06-19
By P. Mcintire (Philly)
I've been using this for over a year on my old pc and now my new one. On the old Dell 8400 it was not automatically recognized - Had to manually select it via Disk Management but I think that was because the pc was old as I don't have to do that with the new one. It's quiet and so far I have not had any problems with it at all.

 "Do not buy this drive!!!" 2009-06-19
By Lars A. Selen (Phoenix, AZ United States)
Do not buy this drive and beware of any Cavalry drive. Mine crashed after warranty was up and Bason Computer will not even repair it for a charge. In a way they do you a favor, the selection of brand for your replacement drive becomes easier.Cavalry Storage CAXM Series 500 GB USB / eSATA External Hard Drive CAXM37500 - Includes eSATA Kit


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Western Digital Caviar Blue 500 GB Bulk/OEM Hard Drive 3.5 Inch, 8 MB Cache, 7200 RPM SATA II WD5000AAJS

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Cool, quiet and fast. WD Caviar Blue drives offer superior performance and reliability, making them ideal for business and family desktops.
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 "expensive brick" 2009-04-15
By Jared Robinson (Athol, MA United States)
I bought this drive for my first PC build, it installed easy, and my BIOS picked it up, but it could not be written to. Tried numerous ideas incuding a BIOS flash. I could not even load the software off the WD site that usually comes with a retail copy. The thing would just not work. Sent it back and got a 1TB Caviar Black instead.

 "Great Drive But Didn't Fix my Problem" 2009-03-23
By Jon Knabenschuh (Orem, UT)
I had a drive that went bad and was hoping I could buy the exact same model number and swap the control board on it to access the data on the bad drive. Needless to say it didn't work. However this is a good drive and will most likely use it in my system at a future date. Shipping was also very quick and got it before the estimated date.

 "So far so good..." 2009-02-03
By IrreverentMan (Near San Diego)
I got the OEM version of this hard drive and that means no box, no cables, no nothing except the hard drive. So beware. I know what I'm doing but maybe there are others out there that don't. Anyway, so far it is still running, seems fine, no problems, etc. Very fast shipping (paid for snail mail and it arrived in like three days).

 "WD 500 GIG DRIVE" 2009-01-14
By R. GOODSITE (Michigan)
This is a great hard drive. I've had no problems

and don't anticipate any in the future. I've owned several WD drive's since the 90's and will continue to use these great drives!!!



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 "Just_The_Thing" 2008-08-16
By Maylene Waldhouse (S.L.C., UT USA)
Great as a 7200 rpm drive. Works great for what it is, Western Digital always seems to work. Much slower than my 10K & 15K SCSI drives, but much (MUCH) faster than USB or Firewire external 7200 rpm drives. I have been using it for less than 90 days, so far it works fine.


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 "PS3 Upgrade" 2009-08-19
By Erik A. Vega (Kansas, USA)
As someone before me has stated, it's possible to use this as a PS3 upgrade. And that's sure what I did.



I do, unlike previous reviewer, use it for a movie collection. And BOY, it doesn't disappoint. With as much information stored on there, and all the space used up, it would seem like the PS3 or the hard drive would slow down, but I can assure everyone it runs at the same exact speed, and takes the same amount of time, as my 80 gb (factory installed) hard drive took to run. It works for all my uses.



Since this is more of a review over the hard drive I will stick with that. Currently been using for over a few months, and it hasn't had one single error thrown out of it, or one problem. Perhaps it's the reason I'm using it for that has left this working well, since I can't give expert advice on how it would react on a laptop or desktop. But it works fine.



Worth definitely the look into if it fits your needs, as I'm happy with it.

 "Highly recommended for a laptop or PS3 upgrade" 2009-06-02
By A. Dent (Minas Anor, GD)
QUICK EVALUATION: The Western Digital 500GB 2.5" SATA II is a quiet, fast, easy to install, drive. Based on my experience with WD (I own several), the Scorpios are reliable drives. The 2.5" SATAs easily and perfectly mount inside the PS3's drive bay where they can replace PS3's original 20-40-60-80-160 GB drive without voiding Sony's warranty.



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PS3 Upgrade:



I have replaced my original PS3 drive with a 320 GB WD quite a while ago but, over the last weekend, I helped a friend of mine upgrade his PS3's with this one. He decided to pick this model and, since I had a great experience with the 320GB version, I encouraged him to go WD.



My friend believes that the 500GB is at the peak of price/performance curve at this time. Like me, he has no plans of storing a movie library on the PS3 so he expects for the 500 GB to be sufficient for the life of his console. After that, it's likely that he'll be buying the next generation game/multimedia machine. The 320 GB model that I used some time ago is still available but the 500 GB is only $30 more so it makes a lot of sense to spend a little more and enjoy the extra storage.



Advice to the PS3 upgraders from someone who, after some hesitation, actually did it and then did it again a few more times for friends and family since:



- If you need to format this drive or any drive to FAT32 - and you need a FAT32 partition for the PS3 backup - the best utility I found was FAT32FORMAT.EXE - Google it and you shall find it out there. I'm not reviewing the formatter utility but I can tell you that it does a drive in less than 10 seconds AND it works on Vista too.

- It helps to have a USB-connected drive handy to back up your PS3 content before upgrading. With one of these as the backup device, the PS3 fully restores EVERYTHING, including whatever copywrited or protected objects, such as, in my case the PS2 memory cards emulations and all the game saves.



I will not go into upgrade details because there are lots of guides on the Net including great Youtube videos on how to do it but, if anyone has any questions, do leave a note and I shall reply as soon as I get to read it.



To conclude, the upgrade proceeded without any glitches and my friend has now a perfectly working console where storage won't be an issue for some time to come. PS3 performance appears to the same, which is how it should be. I haven't heard back from my friend in 8 days now so, my assumption is that all is working well and he's busy enjoying his upgraded PS3.



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Laptop Upgrade:



My 2 year old Thinkpad T60 came with a wimpy 60GB SATA drive. I needed the ability to upgrade to the much larger 500GB and do it without having to reinstall the OS, apply the service packs and then reinstall and configure 100 different little apps.



Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery allowed me to do all of the above in about one hour. Its Utilities section has a 'clone' option that would copy EVERYTHING, including the Master Boot Record/Sector (MBR) from the puny 60GB drive unto the 500GB while allowing me to control the size of the active partition - this while the 500GB was connected through a USB wire and the laptop booted off the program's CD.



Once the operation completed (50 minutes) I simply removed the old 60GB drive off my laptop and replaced it with the 500GB drive. Once the laptop was turned back on it booted up happily, with a 200GB master partition and a 300GB second partition. There are 3 words that I have to use to describe the process: PERFECTION and COMPLETE SATISFACTION. This capability alone is worth the price of this product.



To my surprise, with the new drive, the Primary Hard Disk score as computed by Microsoft (right click on 'My computer' then select 'Properties') jumped from a decent 4.8 to an unexpected 5.7.

 "Perfect for a PS3, laptop upgrade" 2009-03-12
By A. Dent (Minas Anor, GD)
QUICK EVALUATION: The Western Digital 500GB 2.5" SATA II is a quiet, fast, easy to install, drive. Based on my experience with WD (I own several), the Scorpios are reliable drives. The 2.5" SATAs easily and perfectly mount inside the PS3's drive bay where they can replace PS3's original 20-40-60-80-160 GB drive without voiding Sony's warranty.



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PS3 Upgrade:



I have replaced my original PS3 drive with a 320 GB WD quite a while ago but, over the last weekend, I helped a friend of mine upgrade his PS3's with this one. He decided to pick this model and, since I had a great experience with the 320GB version, I encouraged him to go WD.



My friend believes that the 500GB is at the peak of price/performance curve at this time. Like me, he has no plans of storing a movie library on the PS3 so he expects for the 500 GB to be sufficient for the life of his console. After that, it's likely that he'll be buying the next generation game/multimedia machine. The 320 GB model that I used some time ago is still available but the 500 GB is only $30 more so it makes a lot of sense to spend a little more and enjoy the extra storage.



Advice to the PS3 upgraders from someone who, after some hesitation, actually did it and then did it again a few more times for friends and family since:



- If you need to format this drive or any drive to FAT32 - and you need a FAT32 partition for the PS3 backup - the best utility I found was FAT32FORMAT.EXE - Google it and you shall find it out there. I'm not reviewing the formatter utility but I can tell you that it does a drive in less than 10 seconds AND it works on Vista too.

- It helps to have a USB-connected drive handy to back up your PS3 content before upgrading. With one of these as the backup device, the PS3 fully restores EVERYTHING, including whatever copywrited or protected objects, such as, in my case the PS2 memory cards emulations and all the game saves.



I will not go into upgrade details because there are lots of guides on the Net including great Youtube videos on how to do it but, if anyone has any questions, do leave a note and I shall reply as soon as I get to read it.



To conclude, the upgrade proceeded without any glitches and my friend has now a perfectly working console where storage won't be an issue for some time to come. PS3 performance appears to the same, which is how it should be. I haven't heard back from my friend in 8 days now so, my assumption is that all is working well and he's busy enjoying his upgraded PS3.



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Laptop Upgrade:



My 2 year old Thinkpad T60 came with a wimpy 60GB SATA drive. I needed the ability to upgrade to the much larger 500GB and do it without having to reinstall the OS, apply the service packs and then reinstall and configure 100 different little apps.



Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery allowed me to do all of the above in about one hour. Its Utilities section has a 'clone' option that would copy EVERYTHING, including the Master Boot Record/Sector (MBR) from the puny 60GB drive unto the 500GB while allowing me to control the size of the active partition - this while the 500GB was connected through a USB wire and the laptop booted off the program's CD.



Once the operation completed (50 minutes) I simply removed the old 60GB drive off my laptop and replaced it with the 500GB drive. Once the laptop was turned back on it booted up happily, with a 200GB master partition and a 300GB second partition. There are 3 words that I have to use to describe the process: PERFECTION and COMPLETE SATISFACTION. This capability alone is worth the price of this product.



To my surprise, with the new drive, the Primary Hard Disk score as computed by Microsoft (right click on 'My computer' then select 'Properties') jumped from a decent 4.8 to an unexpected 5.7.


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- Measures 5.25 x 7.3 x 1.95-inches; 1 year warranty
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 "Both stopped working with in weeks of purchase" 2009-08-10
By Arlyn E. Wood II (Stuttgart Germany)
I bought two, one to back up on the other. As soon as I crossed over the information from my old hard drive and got rid of it, the new one crashed. The other one stopped working about a week later. Five years of information family photos and work gone. I contacted the company. They said they would replace them but my information is my problem. I would not take one for free. I am struggling with how to get the information off the one and then I will return both. Most unhappy.

 "Simple tech is simple to use" 2009-06-09
By Satya R. Nagumotu
i bought it recently and working great. simple to use. taking backup is so easy. backup application is user friendly. it is great for backup or write files directly to the drive.

 "Quit after only 3 months, warranty unusable" 2009-06-06
By S. A. ROBBINS (USA)
These drives are highly unreliable. This is my second and both quit after short periods of time. Big problem is what do you do with the data still on the drives? Are you willing to risk someone reading the drive data when you return them? I was not and talking to one of their techs was a waste of time. These are throwaway and junk.

 "EASY TO USE" 2009-06-02
By Jay E. Welch (TULELAKE CA. USA)
It is Exactly as discribed. Plug and play. I have had no problems what so ever and it is fast.. BUY IT...

 "SimpleDrive Very Simple" 2009-05-18
By R. Morisch
This drive was a great value for the price. Just hook it up and it works. No problems what so ever. The package is nice also.


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