Do you "safely remove" your flash drive ...

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Surv0 said:
neway we just going in circles here, fact is, ive done it for years and always wondered why ppl said safely remove. Ive never needed to, and have never experienced true problems thereof.
This hdd will die sooner than removing unsafely could screw it up.
Ive dropped swung it off the table before, onto the ground while it was still connected, lol, seems fine. Spilt a bit of water on it, still fine.
They fairly cheap, so i only really except one to last about 2 years... then ill buy an upgrade :)
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It touches the ground while still connected?! :eek:
 
Surv0 said:
neway we just going in circles here, fact is, ive done it for years and always wondered why ppl said safely remove. Ive never needed to, and have never experienced true problems thereof.
This hdd will die sooner than removing unsafely could screw it up.
Ive dropped swung it off the table before, onto the ground while it was still connected, lol, seems fine. Spilt a bit of water on it, still fine.
They fairly cheap, so i only really except one to last about 2 years... then ill buy an upgrade :)
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It was required for the older operating systems and systems using a cache before writing the data. Nowadays it is not required but still recommended.
 
I have seen data being lost and windoze complaining that it needs to be formatted after it was not removed safely.
 
i don't safely remove mine.
But when you have stopped writing stuff and you try to Safely remove and the message appears drive not ready it could mean all the viruses the puter has are climbing aboard so i suggest just yanking it out.
 
thats why you need protection, like a HDD Enclosure.

Simply using a quick virus scan doesn't help, sometimes it has viruses which it has not found out about yet.
 
Now I just got to the point when I'm not sure if someone's talking about flashdrives or other things
 
mercurial said:
Picard has not posted a reply since the OP.
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I turn my head for a couple of hours and this is what happens. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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Dr@g0nic said:
Poor Picard... the guy was trying to ask a simple question...
Good thing he isn't new to MyADSL...
BTW I LOLd!!!!:D
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With my other forums combined I think I have well over 10,000 posts. I've seen it all.
 
Ok, for an on topic response. First plug in the USB drive, then, on XP, if you go to device manager and expand "disk drives".

You will see the USB stick listed. Right click on the USB drive and select "Properties". That will open a dialog. The second tab is one called "Policies". On that tab you have two options:

1) Optimize for quick removal
2) Optimize for performance

If you have "Optimize for performance" selected then you will have to use the "Safely Remove Hardware" option otherwise, it's fine just to remove the USB stick.
 
Abe said:
Ok, for an on topic response. First plug in the USB drive, then, on XP, if you go to device manager and expand "disk drives".

You will see the USB stick listed. Right click on the USB drive and select "Properties". That will open a dialog. The second tab is one called "Policies". On that tab you have two options:

1) Optimize for quick removal
2) Optimize for performance

If you have "Optimize for performance" selected then you will have to use the "Safely Remove Hardware" option otherwise, it's fine just to remove the USB stick.
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I was just about to post this. I only remembered now :o
 
Yesterday I forgot to safely remove my drive from my clothes before it went into the washing machine... :sick:

Will wait till Sunday before I plug it back in. I really hope it still works. :(
 
I havent lolled this much since Hellkom.co.za

Anyways, tis not necessary to Safely Remove a PORTABLE HDD, whether it be 2.5" or 3.5" coz Windows is writing to live storage with life cache etc.

But it is advisable to Safely Remove a USB FLASH Stick, coz it is solid state media with no cache. Remember that Windows is RAWB system. RAWB? Old school NT days people...

Read Ahead Write Behind.
 
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