![]() ![]() With OS X (the Aluratek device works with any OS), a new, uninitialized drive causes the operating system to offer to format it. You plug in the wall wart, connect the USB cable to your target machine, insert your SATA drive straight out of the packaging, and switch on the power. This product is really misnamed because it isn't actually an enclosure at all but rather a docking station for naked drives. So, I trotted over to Fry's, purchased a 1TB, 5,700 RPM, Serial ATA (SATA) drive for a miserly $110 (I still marvel at how cheap disk drives have become … ah, yes, when I was young …) along with a very useful device: The Aluratek USB 2.0 2.5"/3.5" SATA Hard Drive Docking Enclosure for the princely sum of $30. Well, after almost a year the drive didn't bork and, indeed, hadn't apparently got any worse, but I found a reason to fix it: The drive being the start-up disk was running out of space. This was one of those things that looked like a lot of work would be needed to cure something that wasn't critical, so after writing the column I took the path of least resistance: I backed up the entire machine and waited for the drive to bork. I tried using various commercial tools after trying Apple's own Disk Utility, but no joy, the disk errors were not a problem that could be easily resolved. The problem was that the start-up disk had bad sectors that OS X wasn't reporting the operating system was just occasionally slowing down when it accessed that part of the disk but it wasn't actually complaining "out loud", as it were. I discussed my problem with this machine in Backspin almost a year ago. On other fronts: I finally got around to fixing my Mac. ![]()
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