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Old Sep 12, 2008, 06:58 PM Local time: Sep 12, 2008, 04:58 PM #1 of 5
safely remove hardware

For things like flash drives, I have been told that you should click on the safely remove hardware icon on the task bar. Is this actually necessary? I've never had any problems with my flash drive, but I have an external hard drive, and I usually unplug it without clicking on safely remove hardware. What problems could this cause?

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Old Sep 12, 2008, 07:50 PM Local time: Sep 12, 2008, 07:50 PM #2 of 5
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It depends on whether you have enabled or disabled caching to the drive. Go to the device manager and assuming you have the drive plugged in, select it under disk drives and double-click on it. Then go to the policies tab in the newly opened window. If "optimize for quick removal" is checked, then you can just pull it out, if "optimize for performance" is checked, you need to use the safely remove hardware thing.


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Old Sep 12, 2008, 08:56 PM Local time: Sep 13, 2008, 09:56 AM #3 of 5
It used to be necessary, I think, but not anymore.

In any case, you should not pull out the plug while data is being written. It can result in many bad things, as BlindMonk said.

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Old Sep 12, 2008, 10:35 PM Local time: Sep 12, 2008, 08:35 PM #4 of 5
But in the case of the harddrive, since it has spinning disks, if nothing is being written and I pull it out, nothing will happen?

Also, what will be the difference between running it in "optimize for quick removal" mode and "optimize for performance" mode?

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Old Sep 12, 2008, 10:40 PM Local time: Sep 13, 2008, 11:40 AM #5 of 5
Yes, I believe so. But I always safely remove anyway. Takes 5 seconds to do.

If you optimize for performance, it'll probably run better, but will cache stuff on the hard disk. So you WILL have to do the safely remove thing every time you disconnect.

I was speaking idiomatically.
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