do you "Safely remove hardware"?

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: dennilfloss
Always. Better safe than sorry. Only takes a couple of seconds and a few clicks of the mouse so why be so impatient?

because it isn't necessary. Let's say you had to flip a switch on your light and then flip a switch on the wall to turn it off to "be safe" in not messing up fluorescent bulbs, would you still do it if the wall switch worked all the time with no risk of messing up incandescent bulbs and you were using incandescents at the time?

If you didn't know better you might follow the instructions "just to be safe" but if you do know better and there is no risk then there isn't any reason to do it.

 

[biostud]

yes for harddrives, as I've had data corruption when not doing so.

 

[Amaroque]

I've lost the contents of a flash drive by just yanking it. I'm not sure if it was writing at the time, as it was several years ago.

 

[Zepper]

I do it because it is a "best practice" and I don't have a lot of bucks to be replacing stuff.

.bh.