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Regarding the "Safely Remove Hardware" Icon:
Left clicking on the icon will bring up the 'easy' menu, from which you can immediately select the desired device, while right clicking in 'expert' mode brings up the 'Safely Remove Hardware' option, from which you can then remove the desired device.
Although I usually just end up yanking the thumb drive out when the pretty lights on it stop blinking. I haven't had any lost data yet.
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The only time I've had a problem taking it out without the "safely remove" thing was when I removed my external HDD. I don't want to repeat that.
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The primary purpose for the Safely Remove option is for external storage (And more specifically, external magnetic drives, which can head crash if they are powered by USB and that power suddenly disappears). If you yank the cable while the drive is writing/reading data, it can cause big problems. That said, I've never used it myself. Mostly cause I've never used external magnetic storage Posts: 3003 | Registered: Oct 2004
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I got a flash that over the course of a given day will get yanked unceremoniously out of five or six usb ports. I been using it for over a year now.
They're different than ferromagnetic platters in the way they store the data so you don't have to be as careful with them. Of course, at the same time, still have a regularly updated backup copy of what lives on your flash drive because the medium being more stable has led to a 45707% increase in the steponabbility, losability, leavonbusability, leaveinpantspocketsduringlaundrydayability, and snapoffinportability of the data storage unit.
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I did this to one Jump drive like 3 times and it kept working. Then it reached its losability limitations.
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quote:Originally posted by Boris: The primary purpose for the Safely Remove option is for external storage (And more specifically, external magnetic drives, which can head crash if they are powered by USB and that power suddenly disappears). If you yank the cable while the drive is writing/reading data, it can cause big problems. That said, I've never used it myself. Mostly cause I've never used external magnetic storage
Back in the good(?) old days of floppies, you didn't eject the disk when the light was on. That was what the light was for. It was never that hard. I hate the amount of mother-may-I that I have to play with computers.
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