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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Value | 4 | | Performance | 4.5 | | Ease of Use | 4.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4.5 |
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5 of 5 Use it with your Mac! Thursday, September 11, 2008 Mark P. from Oakland, CA
I've seen some of the other reviews claiming this drive has conked out soon after opening. Not for me! I've been using the drive for about three weeks now, leaving it on continuously, and I have experienced no problems whatsoever. The drive is pretty much as advertised: no frills but sturdy, quiet as a whisper, plug and play, easy to reformat (I'm using an originally PC-formatted drive with Mac OS X), and dependable. Since I'm using it mostly as a backup drive, I haven't had much chance to test access speeds, but I have booted from it with excellent results. I was a little concerned because Cavalry makes identical drives that are "Mac ready" (and charges more for them), but you might as well save a few bucks and reformat yourself; your Mac will recognize it out of the box and reformatting with OS X's Disk Utility is easy as pie! Was this review helpful?
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