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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby shovenose » March 26th, 2011, 11:28 am

i hate you now.
:lol: jk
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby RWenger » April 21st, 2011, 10:16 pm

My friend always just yanks them out (or at least he used to), and he yanked my old 2 gig Cruzer out a couple times a few years ago. Very shortly afterwards, it was dead. I always blamed him for it.
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby shovenose » April 21st, 2011, 10:20 pm

I've never had a flash drive die on me (except my old Kingston that my mom parked her car on in a puddle for 3 days but that's another story)...
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby RWenger » April 21st, 2011, 10:40 pm

A friend in high school was a volunteer firefighter and his flash drive went through the washing machine, the dryer, and numerous fires with lots of heat, and his drive was alive and well the last time I saw him. The case was busted, but the drive itself was working fine.
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby shovenose » April 21st, 2011, 10:52 pm

that's pretty good.
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby c_hegge » April 22nd, 2011, 2:10 am

Wait untill you see the corsair survivor flash drives. those can supposedly survive being run over by a car.
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the coils backwards! :D
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby shovenose » April 22nd, 2011, 6:21 am

Well ok let me give you story about my old kingston...

I had no idea where the hell it was...little did i know that it had fallen out of my pocket onto the driveway/parking area.
About a week later, i find it under where my mom parks her car, and it looked very crushed and rusty(it was rainy)... so i let it dry for a few days, and i put it in my computer.
It did work initially, but halfway through cooying all the data off it to my computer it died...
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby Klinc » May 29th, 2011, 7:09 pm

Safe removal can't damage the drive. Its plug and play and hot plug. Only thing that happens is cause windows doesn't write to the device immediately. So you pulling it out while windows writes on it corrupts the data but does not damage the device. That's why you can set it for quick removal or not. I always set it for quick removal.
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby Microsuck » May 29th, 2011, 7:50 pm

Klinc is right. That is why sometimes, a small popup with occur in the tray that says "Windows Delayed Write Failed." Any data that was to be written is corrupt, but the flash drive is fine. Nothing will happen.

Maybe with USBB 1.1. But DEFINITELY not USB 3.0.
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RE: "safe" device removal

Postby c_hegge » May 30th, 2011, 3:43 am

I know that too, but it only takes like 1sec and I don't want data corrupted if it's that easy to avoid.
No wonder it doesn't work! You installed the coils backwards! :D
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