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Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 128 GB USB/SATA II 2.5 inch Internal and External Solid State Drive CASD00128MIS
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(4.5 out of 5)
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Most Helpful First | Newest First | + Share11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Great for the price
(5 out of 5) by Nathan Marshall on Mar 22, 2009 (Iowa)This product is a fantastic replacement for any notebook drive, but be aware that if you are booting vista, because of the constant read/write procedures that are built in, you won't notice much of a difference in performance between this and a standard 7200 rpm drive. That having been said, its super reliable and if you boot another OS it shows a marked improvement. Also keep in mind that this is by no means among the fastest of the solid state drives available, but it is also significantly less expensive than others. If I could go back, I probably would have spent the extra to get a quicker drive, but ultimately if you are simply looking for something slightly faster than a normal hard disk and much more reliable, you will not disappointed with this product.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
OH YES.
(5 out of 5) by FISH on Apr 3, 2009 (Los Angeles, CA)This drive is lightning fast. The 2.5" form factor let me drop it right into my laptop... EASY PEASY. I'm never going to worry about shock damage to the drive. My battery life improved, and the system is nice and cool.
Take a look at the photo... there's also a mini USB output. If I ever decide to get a new system, or want to upgrade, I'll just pop the drive back out and use it as a ultra rugged pocket drive.
I'm so happy. Thanks Amazon. Thanks Cavalry.
Did I mention THIS DRIVE IS FAST?
Take a look at the photo... there's also a mini USB output. If I ever decide to get a new system, or want to upgrade, I'll just pop the drive back out and use it as a ultra rugged pocket drive.
I'm so happy. Thanks Amazon. Thanks Cavalry.
Did I mention THIS DRIVE IS FAST?
10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Techie Christmas present, 64GB Calvalry SSD
(5 out of 5) by Derick Moore on Dec 29, 2008 (Colorado Springs)Now I have to get a new laptop!
Because my 3 year old laptop doesn't have a SATA interface, I'm in the market for a new PC!
This drive is just short of awesome. Boot time for XP is about 1/3 of what it was, and the fact that I can carry my 'brains' on so portable a drive is wonderful. (I remember when a couple of floppies were enough)
I didn't get to play with it until the 26th, and I'm still in the process of loading it up with all my tools.
As I develop SAS/SATA BIOS software, it also fits well into my test/development goals. Instead of hauling a laptop from place to place, I can now, in many cases, just put my development environment in my pocket and take it with me. With so many dissimilar PC's to hook up to, I don't know if I can use it for booting everywhere, but I can surely have my editors/debuggers/compilers and test tools handy.
It barely gets above room temperature when sitting on a desk (using USB), though it feels warmer when running off a SATA connection (probably because it is nearer the computer), it don't think heat will ever be a problem unless I set it on the dashboard in a hot car.
I have 16GB, 4GB, 1GB, and a couple of 512MB thumb drives, but they can't measure up for comparison. This is a real hard drive, and it's real fast too.
Derick
Because my 3 year old laptop doesn't have a SATA interface, I'm in the market for a new PC!
This drive is just short of awesome. Boot time for XP is about 1/3 of what it was, and the fact that I can carry my 'brains' on so portable a drive is wonderful. (I remember when a couple of floppies were enough)
I didn't get to play with it until the 26th, and I'm still in the process of loading it up with all my tools.
As I develop SAS/SATA BIOS software, it also fits well into my test/development goals. Instead of hauling a laptop from place to place, I can now, in many cases, just put my development environment in my pocket and take it with me. With so many dissimilar PC's to hook up to, I don't know if I can use it for booting everywhere, but I can surely have my editors/debuggers/compilers and test tools handy.
It barely gets above room temperature when sitting on a desk (using USB), though it feels warmer when running off a SATA connection (probably because it is nearer the computer), it don't think heat will ever be a problem unless I set it on the dashboard in a hot car.
I have 16GB, 4GB, 1GB, and a couple of 512MB thumb drives, but they can't measure up for comparison. This is a real hard drive, and it's real fast too.
Derick
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
FINNALY ... A SILENT HARDDRIVE
(5 out of 5) by Mark Pascall on Jul 11, 2009 (Santee, California)I installed my Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 64 GB SSD in my office PC. It replaced a 10,000 rpm Raptor which was an excellent hard drive expect in my case it had an annoying little ticking noise every 10 seconds or so. To be fair I'm pretty sure the ticking was not the Raptor's fault because it is caused by XP repeatedly accessing the drive for no apparent reason. Click click ... click click ... very irritating. Well anyway, thats all behind me since I installed the absolutely silent Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 64 GB SSD. Now XP can do its thing and I can have my quiet office back.
UPDATE: I have since ditched XP and moved up to UBUNTU. The switch went without a hitch and absolutely no complaint from my happy little Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 64 GB SSD. I'm sure its happy because it was faster running XP than the Raptor and even faster still on UBUNTU.
Well, I hope that helps someone decide what to buy. Sometimes its the little niche answers that help the most. I know I've been helped with purchases here before. So thanks to everyone who has ever taken the time to review a product for Amazon.
UPDATE: I have since ditched XP and moved up to UBUNTU. The switch went without a hitch and absolutely no complaint from my happy little Cavalry Storage Pelican Series 64 GB SSD. I'm sure its happy because it was faster running XP than the Raptor and even faster still on UBUNTU.
Well, I hope that helps someone decide what to buy. Sometimes its the little niche answers that help the most. I know I've been helped with purchases here before. So thanks to everyone who has ever taken the time to review a product for Amazon.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Doesn't work well with Windows 7 64bit via SATA interface (works fine via USB)
(3 out of 5) by Oxygen on Oct 19, 2009It might be just a case of incompatibility with my motherboard's SATA interface. (which I doubt it, as my motherboard is somewhat decent, the high end of gigabyte's offerings for Intel P45 popular chipset EP45-DQ6).
But in any case, I thought it might be helpful to point out that it does't work well over SATA (lots of corrupted files) when running under Windows 7 64bit (haven't tried it under other OSs)
However, it works very well via its handy built-in USB interface.
But in any case, I thought it might be helpful to point out that it does't work well over SATA (lots of corrupted files) when running under Windows 7 64bit (haven't tried it under other OSs)
However, it works very well via its handy built-in USB interface.