Sporadic USB drive issue with Mini -- iPhoto can't save, can't eject

I recently bought an Ultra stackable USB enclosure and a 1 G WD SATA drive. The drive formatted ok and I was able to move 500 gigs worth of media onto it. So far so good.
Now, sporadically iPhoto and iBank (possibly others too, but I haven't kept track) complain that they can't save their data. They can open it but they can't save it. Running "Verify and Repair" from disk utility yields nothing. Rebooting and running the disk utility yields nothing either.
When that happens I close all the apps and try ejecting it. Finder says the drive is in use and cannot be ejected. "lsof" output from terminal yields nothing. Only thing that helps is either a reboot or "hidutil eject -force" followed by remounting the drive using the Disk Utility.
After that all is well for another 2 days or so and the problem surfaces up again. I am dumbfounded as to why this happens. The drive seems ok, everything seems normal, so I am lost.
Any thoughts before I call AppleCare with this ?

No, I eliminated that problem by connecting directly.
I noticed that I may have accidentally placed a shortcut to "Macintosh HD" on that drive. It is possible that ejection issues could've been caused by that, i.e. "Macintosh HD" is always in use. Perhaps that was my problem ? I deleted the shortcut, we'll report what happens.

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