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wait sorry what's this video called what do you mean eject it's not a cd you
just yank it out right well
you can do that but in this case eject
doesn't mean this it means to tell your operating system
to wrap up whatever it's doing with the usb drive to prepare it for
yanking out so think of it as partially disconnecting the drive it's still
physically plugged in but your computer can't really talk to it anymore but hold
on a second we didn't have to do anything fancy when we physically
ejected cd-roms back in the prehistoric 1990s
so why is there this general conception that ejecting your flash drives is a
good idea well the most obvious benefit of ejecting your device first is that it
prevents your data from being corrupted if your system is busy writing something
to the drive if you pull your media out
before your computer has finished working with it you might come back
later to find that the graduate thesis that you wanted to store on it is now
totally unreadable causing you to flunk out of your graduate program get dumped
by your girlfriend and ultimately end up living in a box behind tim hortons true
story happened to a friend of mine so yeah it might seem pretty obvious that
you don't want to rip out a thumb drive during a file save operation any more
than you would take out a hot pocket for consumption after only one minute in the
microwave but what if you've safely closed whatever it
is that you're working on and you just want to grab the drive and get on with
your day this is where things get a little bit gray because it partly
depends on what operating system you're using and whether you've fiddled with a
certain setting you see Windows offers a feature called write caching for
removable devices that's designed to improve
speed with it turned on any data that you try
to transfer to your flash drive is held in a cache in your system memory so
instead of forcing a program to wait around for the data transfer to finish
Windows will instead wait for a more opportune time to do multiple data
transfers at once the downside of this speed boost is that
it leaves your usb drives much more susceptible to corruption if you be it
accidentally or on purpose pull them out without ejecting them first as your pc
might show that it's finished copying the data but it might not actually be
done ejecting the drive will command your
computer to go ahead and flush anything in the right cache to your drive
immediately and it will prompt you when you can actually safely remove it
the good news is that write caching offers a negligible performance boost in most
situations so in the event that it's not already disabled you can go ahead and
turn it off here on Linux and macOS it is typically
enabled by default though so make sure that you eject your drives before
removing them if you haven't given your soul to cortana so then back to the
original question yeah that one if you're using Windows and have right
caching turned off is it okay to just remove your thumb drive without ejecting
it assuming obviously that you're not in the middle of saving something to it the
answer is a definite probably however
there is the possibility that your os could still be writing small amounts of
data in the background depending on exactly how your programs deal with
saved files and i have personally experienced previously
working drives ending up with corrupted data on them that i wasn't even using by
doing this so while the average Windows user probably
doesn't have too much to worry about it is also probably worth taking the
extra two seconds to click eject if you can't figure out what to do while you
wait just try closing your eyes and picturing a cd tray sliding out for a
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