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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful: This review is from: Cavalry Storage CAXM Series CAXM37250 250 GB USB / eSATA External Hard Drive - Includes eSATA Kit (Personal Computers) The positive reviewers for this product are shills for Cavalry. Check all their reviews and see they just post good reviews for all Cavalry products. The Cavalry products are cheaply made, loud, and unreliable.
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Cavalry Storage CAXM Series CAXM37250 250 GB USB / eSATA External Hard Drive - Includes eSATA Kit (Personal Computers) I was reluctant to buy this Cavalry after reading some of the reviews but decided to give it shot after one person reminded us all these external hard drives may have different brand names but the inner workings can only be one of a few manufacturers, not dissimilar to VCR's back in the day. So, that plus the included eSATA kit was a selling point for me. I installed the eSATA port in my computer which was very simple to do but I would suggest those not in the know about their systems ascertain you have an appropriate slot on your computer motherboard to plug the eSATA cable into. The manual for your motherboard should show the locations so that, along with looking at the board, you should be able to find the slot if present. After making all the connections and rebooting my PC the Cavalry hard drive was recognized. If it's not you may have to go into your BIOS to enable it but I didn't seem to have that issue. (I should note I am using Windows XP)...Read more By This review is from: Cavalry Storage CAXM Series CAXM37300 300 GB USB / eSATA External Hard Drive - Includes eSATA Kit (Personal Computers) I'm a old quy running 5 computers. I purchased this drive for critical backups and it looks good. The drive is, however unoperable. DONT TAKE A CHANCE WITH CAVALRY Drives! The fan and HD spins up on this one but the USB and eSATA circuit board came dead on delivery. The drive would not recongize two different XP Pro computers useing either USB or SATA ports so I stopped messing with it further. Just so you know... I did some post purchase research for feedback at NewEgg, TigreDirect, and a couple more places and found the feedback abysmal! These drives have caused people a lot of damage, lost time and lost data. LOOK UP THE FEEDBACK! This company doesnt make quality, they make mistakes. I called the Distributor 1-800-xxx-xxxx number in the manual and found all 23 people, Sales, Service,and Tec lines were ''Unavailable''. Yeah right!! I shipped my dead drive back, and cancled a same Cavalry-drive exchange order. Burned...Read more |