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Do you rip your USB stick out without "ejecting" it and wait till it's safe?
Boost just because your beautiful ... Yeah you are ... Hugz
Hugz & xXx
@Melissabeartrix
Always rip, never had an issue.
I also think that waiting to eject is for imaginary reasons that have no basis in reality.
I think it does help with the life of the removal media ... Even if it just cuts power to stop it arching and data transfer ... Hugz
But I could be wrong ... Just what I was told many years ago by a data recovery person
Hugz & xXx
@Melissabeartrix
I am certain that there is some tech that is rolling their eyes at me, but my experience is that I have never had corruption on a USB drive.
I have had them in the clothes washer & dryer repeatedly, have repeatedly dropped them, never used eject. The only time one of them stopped working is after it was bent in half and the shell shattered. Even then, I could get it to work well enough to transfer the data before giving up on it.
{Knocking on wood {taps head} for you}
I've only had a couple just not work from purchase
Hugz & xXx
@Woodswalked @Melissabeartrix Back in the day, I had a friend who used SCSI drives and would frequently hot-swap the connections.
"You're supposed power those off before swapping the connection," I said.
"Yeah, I know they *say* that," he said. "But I've never had a problem."
About a year later, I saw him again and he was powering everything off before swapping the connection.
"Oh!" I said. "I notice you're powering those off before swapping them out now."
He grimaced. "Yeah."
@stevendbrewer
Your experience makes it sound like SCSI are inferior.
I use USB, but if I ever switch then I will keep that in mind.
cc: @Melissabeartrix
@Woodswalked @Melissabeartrix SCSI was *da bomb* in 1981.