Cavalry Storage CAUM Series 500 GB USB External Hard Drive CAUM37500

I received one of these for my 17th birthday; I'm turning 21 this November. This External HDD still runs just as well as the first day I plugged it in and fired it up on our old Dell Dimension 3000 w/ Win-XP x86. It's since also readily accepted Vista (x86) on our Inspiron 1525 Laptop (do yourself a favor and avoid that system like the plague, by the way) and Windows 7 (x64) on my new Acer AS5738PG-6306 Notebook and all without me having to do a single thing but plug it in, switch it on and sit back and drag/drop data.

It is exceptionally quiet, runs cool (thanks to the metallic enclosure), doesn't get fussy at all, requires virtually no upkeep and it also has not damaged or lost a single KB of any single one of the many, many, many files that I have thrown at it over the years (and which has gotten me out of countless tight spots when any of our systems crashed or just needed a good old fashioned new start).

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Had to reformat the drive to get it to connect to a Windows 7 machine. I was successful at backing up a folder and then it disconnected. Powering it off and on got it to come back only to disappear again. I've had several external hard drives including an older Cavalry but this one is either defective or a bad design.

Warning to those considering a Cavalry drive: don't buy their junk!

I had not one but two Cavalry drives (a 60 gig and a 500 gig). The 500 gig stopped working after just one month of use, and the 60 gig fell apart after just two years. This company's products are not built to last, so don't buy from them unless you want to lose years' worth of data.