Oh TTP! How the Mighty Have Fallen…
Well… It’s certainly nice to finally have my laptop back. It only took 3 days - and 4 attempts - for TechTool Pro to fully optimize my paltry 60gb hard drive. I’m more than a little disappointed in the utility at the moment.
I own version 4.0.4, which, as Micromat says, is Tiger compatible. I am aware that a 4.0.5 update is available, but I refuse to use their silly e-drive option. In my opinion, it’s a HUGE waste of valuable disk space. Besides, if your drive really goes belly up, there’s probably not a whole lot the e-drive’s gonna be able to do for you anyway. Nope. I’d rather boot from a CD to do my maintenance because it just feels right to me. But since I don’t feel I should have to shell out another 25 bucks for a whole new CD that only contains a “dot-oh-dot-one” revision, I’m stuck with 4.0.4. I know it didn’t even cost Micromat half that much to produce the updated disc. Price gouge anyone?
The point of this rant? None, really. But I guess I’ve learned that there’s a memory leak the size of Texas in the 4.0.4 optimization app, because, of the 4 times I had to re-run it, it came to a grinding halt after a few hours of operation and then caused the machine to reboot itself. I considered not completing the optimization after the first failure, but it made me very nervous to have a half way optimized drive. I’m still a bit concerned that some little bit of data that I’m going to need at the most critical moment in my life may have been lost. But what really has me baffled is I’m not sure why this happened on my portable, because the same version has worked fine in the past on all the desktop systems I maintain. Go figure.
Needless to say, I’ll be steering clear of optimizing the hard disk of my laptop with TechTool Pro 4.0.4 until I can get my hands on the latest CD version.
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