Anyone Have Experience with Cavalry External Drives?

[Jim March]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> 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