2TB Cavalry CADA External Hard Drive (2-bay) w/ eSATA Kit

[JugStafe]

Cavalry CADA CADA002SA2-B 2TB USB 2.0 / eSATA 2-bay RAID Disk Array for PC - Retail

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822101091

Original Price: $279.99
Instant Savings: -$60.00
MIR: -$20.00
Total: $199.99

Drives: 2 X 1 TB SATA II Drives (*Reviews say they are WD drives.)
RAID Capabilities: 0, 1 and 0+1
Connections: eSATA and USB 2.0

 

[Rider69mp5]

Been looking at building my own, so I picked this up instead...hopefully it will work for my application.

 

[Zap]

Wow, nice deal. I've purchased 2-bay external enclosures (Macally, USB only, around $40+ship from Newegg) and was thinking of buying another enclosure for my 1.5TB drives I just bought from Ebay (30% cashback). Instead, I purchased those "docking stations." I might have purchased one of these instead if I had seen it earlier.

 

[JugStafe]

Just finished comparing on the Egg.. This deal seems pretty nice considering the cheapest comparable setup with a 2-bay enclosure that does the same would cost around $315.00 (shipped).

Not to mention as well that if these are the WD10EACS 1TB SATA hard drives, they go for around $99.99 each bringing the total of the drives almost to the same total amount of the complete Cavalry enclosure setup.

Also, figure I can end up using the current 1TB drives in the enclosure later on for a future pc build and upgrade the enclosure drives to 1.5 or 2 TB..

 

[Lurker1]

JugStafe:
don't count on upgrading these enclosures to above 1TB. 1TB seems to be a "magic limit" for a bunch of manufacturers. That sad, this is still a great deal.

 

[Rider69mp5]

I got it and was going to send it back as I want a true NAS with ethernet capabilities and this does not have it. The Egg is going to charge me $33 to restock the thing, so is anyone interested in buying this one? $215 shipped???

 

[Binky]

I grabbed one too for TV storage on an HTPC. I'm relatively happy with it, although it's slightly noisier than I'd like so I'm going to stick it inside a cabinet.

It's based on the Silicon Image Steelvine processors, as reviewed by tom's a while back.
http://www.tomshardware.com/re...zation-esata,1610.html

Speed in raid 0 feels definitely snappier than single drive.