But do you actually still need to do this?
What happens if you dont?
Is there any harm to be incurred by just pulling a flash drive out?
Well, weve done a little background study, and it turns out that it does.
Previously, operating systems treat disks as items that can be trusted not to change state unexpectedly.
Similarly, write orders may be dispatched to a writing subroutine and forgotten by the main program.
But you do risk confusing your machine, says Remaker.
The Macintosh floppy and optical disk provide more current examples of an interlocked physical and soft mount.
Enter USB connected storage.
There is no mechanical interlock in a USB connection to coordinate the hard and soft mount.
I was using that!
It is very hard to get people to change habits.
If you are doing exclusively reads on a media, safe removal is perhaps not needed.
As a good friend of mine once said: Life is too small to safely eject the disk.
source: www.techworm.net
