Jim March wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mark Phillips > wrote: >> I was looking at the Cavalry CADA-SA2-B (2 TB external eSata RAID 1 (2 X 2 >> TB drives)) drive as a backup drive for 5 users using BackupPC. Anyone have >> experience with this product or Cavalry external drives in general. It must >> be new as there aren't any user reviews on Newegg. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mark > > Here's the problem: nobody can really answer that. > > When you buy an external drive from a company that does NOT make hard > disks themselves, you have no clue what's really in there until you > either pop open the case or query it with a good format tool - gparted > for example will tell you what the drive is. > > Right now Western Digital makes the best drives, by a bit. Seagate > isn't far behind. Maxtor is Seagate's budget line now, avoid. > Hitachi sucks. Toshiba isn't much better. > > If you buy a "Cavalry", you don't know what the heck is in there...pig > in a poke situation. > > If they'll sell you a chassis with no drives in it so you can add your > own, cool. > > Jim What Jim said. :) I haven't tried Cavalry HW - been a little leary of them for no good reason, just gut feel. I could be off on that. So short answer is "no". I've used Acomdata enclosures. Their customer service is outstanding. They handled returns/exchanges for me with no hassles, when the problem was the HDD I put in it. Oops. I'll be using Acomdata enclosures from now on. I buy the bare drives separately, so I know what I'm getting (as Jim said). I wouldn't be surprised if Acomdata would tell you what's in a given unit if you asked them though. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss