On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Mark Phillips <m...@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 --------------------------------------------------- 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
