Safely remove hardware.

When removing a flash disk, who uses "safely remove hardware"?

 

I use "safely remove hardware", I feel it lasts longer this way.

 

I too use safely remove hardware coz I lost a 2GB SD card coz I pulled it out without doing so. Didnt get any refund for that too...so...I advise others to do so

 

Similar thread here:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=80890&highlight=remove

And I use whatever I feel like using at the moment, depends on my state.

 

i usually just pull out.

 

With usb memory sticks, it is safe to just pull it out.
The Safely remove hardware only has an effect on harddrives and other kinds of media where the OS caches writes.

(by default, it will do this with harddrives, and not do it with memory sticks. This can be overridden from device manager if you open the device's properties. (Pick either Optimize for safe removal or Optimize for performance)

In other words, no point whatsoever in using safely remove hardware for memory sticks. At least not unless you've been changing some windows settings that shouldn't be changed.

 

doesn't really matter on hard drives either, the cache is a 'convienence' for lack of a better way to put it

now if you pull out while it is actively writing

btw: if you wanna play with something fun....

CLS
title Removing JumpDrive
Echo Please Wait. . .
taskkill -f -im firefoxportable.exe>nul
taskkill -im uosu.exe>nul
REM If exist "%ProgramFiles%\Total Commander\TotalCmd.exe" del /q /f %windir%\wincmd.ini>Nul
REM If "%computername:~7,3%"=="CAR" del /q /f %windir%\wincmd.ini>Nul
REM If "%computername:~7,3%"=="RIC" del /q /f %windir%\wincmd.ini>Nul
If exist %Temp%\FirefoxPortable rmdir /q /s %Temp%\FirefoxPortable
REM del /s /q /f %temp%\*.*>Nul
"%JumpDrive%Archives\Total Commander\Tools\CommandTools\removedrive.exe" %JumpDrive:~0,2% -b -l >nul

there's a thread around here somewhere with my full script

 

It really depends... Most of the time I just yank it, but if the drive belongs to someone else and they are watching me I usually do the official "safe removal"

 

O..for me, I use safely remove hardware. but i dunno whether it will prolong my flash disk's endurance..^_^

 

I always safely remove just to be safe.

 

I just pull my flash disk out. I have not had any problems yet, knock on wood.

 

If you run Linux, and use NTFS on a shared drive or external drive (like my 100GB drive), you need to make sure that you safely remove it so it unmounts cleanly if you want to write to it with ntfs-3g

 

Not really. The point in the cache is that it might not write when you think it does. Which mean s it might decide to start writing just when you disconnect the drive. Or it might mean it's written only part of a file and then decided to cache the rest until more writes show up.

With harddrives (or anything where write caching is enabled), always use 'safely remove hardware'.
And with anything where the feature is disabled, it makes absolutely no difference.

 

I always safely remove, then pull it when it is ready. I do it with everything I may be removing from a USB port that allows it, and I mean everything. I even use it to remove my printer (my Epson shows as mass storage device). My mice (mouses?), all wireless, and my keyboards (also all wireless except my lappy) do not offer the safely remove provision, however.

 

.....my g-friend pulls it out..... safe or nut........i just blame her.....