do you eject your usb thumb drive?

[daniel1113]

Hell no. And people that take the time to eject thumb drives piss me off... so much extra effort for nothing. Just yank the damn thing out and be done with it.

 

[toolboxolio]

Originally posted by: MDE
No, just make sure that you're not transferring anything to\from it and you should be OK.

 

[NaOH]

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Hell no. And people that take the time to eject thumb drives piss me off... so much extra effort for nothing. Just yank the damn thing out and be done with it.

What effort? 2 clicks? Maybe you need to reorganize your life.

 

[ColdFusion718]

When I'm on a Mac, sometimes when I try to eject one, it says it's in use (when it's not WTF?), I just yank it out.

 

[Jules]

NTFS Is better on a thumb drive then FAT? For some reason it isnt showing a option to format it to NTFS.

 

[npoe1]

Yes, but only because I have nothing better to do.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Why would you do this? There is an option in control panel to turn off write caching or whatever, so it doesn't have to be done. If the thumbdrive isn't being written to, there is no reason to "safely remove" it.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: NaOH

Originally posted by: daniel1113
Hell no. And people that take the time to eject thumb drives piss me off... so much extra effort for nothing. Just yank the damn thing out and be done with it.

What effort? 2 clicks? Maybe you need to reorganize your life.

It takes quite a few clicks. You double click the little icon, then you have to select your drive category, then your drive, then "safely remove", then close that dialog. And it's completely unnecessary.

 

[AMCRambler]

I've got a Lexar 256mb that will lose everything I copied to it since I plugged it in unless I safely remove it. But unless I'm using that drive specifically, sometimes I stop them some times I don't.

 

[clamum]

90% of the time I do. Only takes a few seconds anyway.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Why would you do this? There is an option in control panel to turn off write caching or whatever, so it doesn't have to be done. If the thumbdrive isn't being written to, there is no reason to "safely remove" it.

bingo. on my mac though, I eject it.

 

[jhayx7]

I never used to eject them until I lost all of the data on one because it got corrupt. It amazes me how long windows still uses the device after you have closed out of whatever you have open.