Do You Really Need to Eject USB Drives?
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You've probably seen warnings advising you to "eject" your USB drives before removing them from your computer - but is this really necessary?
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So basically he's saying "Eject before you pull out". Got it.
PHRASING!!!
Wait...
Wot?!
doesent that make the pullout method obsolete?
Snicker, snicker,
Once I was saving an almost-finished school paper to my USB and my bro yanked it out cause he needed it for something.
-I now have one less brother.-
I use Google Drive now.
Lol
r/corpsesbeingbros
Never use an external drive as your only backup of an important document.
Thank god you still had the document on your computer, huh? Would've sucked to have to rewrite the entire paper.
Wouldn't the paper still be on the system's RAM? And then you could just save it to another drive?
Me: Closes all Programms adn windows and Clicks on Eject
Windows: Can't Eject, because a Programm is using this Drive.
Same problem, honestly i just say screw it and turn my computer off then unplug it. I only use my external hard drive for extra video games so unless i'm playing them i don't need it to be plugged in
@@aceinyoface96 I use my main drive for games and a Seagate backup drive for HD movies. After I buy a movie on Blu-Ray or through Vudu, I like to have have a torrented copy that I can play on my Android or Blu-Ray player through the USB drive. I copy a movie or two to my micro SD card at a time to watch on the bus or something so I don't have to worry about buying a separate device. Vudu works just fine with Android, but for Blu-ray discs that don't have that option, it's my preferred method.
i usually just force eject it on file explorer when that happens
This is a common problem. The files have all been closed but windows doesn't know it. So it is being conservative. The problem comes from the delayed write capability where something is stored in memory and later written to the USB. Windows can ASK the USB to store the file. Unless it gets acknowledgment how can it know if its request has been honoured?
Maybe a virus
Whenever i take my USB out or put it in my Computer, i changed the system noise to Mario Screaming.
I don't regret it.
That's amazing. May i also recommend that the Wilhelm scream as another great alternative?
I might steal that idea.
What setting, I always wanted to do this.
I love that idea and will do the same shortly
TELL ME HOW TO DO THAT
Remember kids, when a yes or no answer is being asked always replay with "probably" to avoid that 1% chance of shit happens.
I do that always
has worked since
here in america, we just pull out.
ok, probably my guess who character has white hair
Yes
Yes and No
A highschool teacher of mine freaked out on me because I didn't eject my USB and a warning message popped up. She thought I'd just destroyed the classroom's iMac.
Lol
when you press "shift" button continueosly you get a popup telling you can activate disabled people mode. it happened in school and they thought i "LET" a virus come in (there was no internet).
yeah, well, when students know more about computers than their teachers, these things can happen...
students doesnt know more. Teachers are the ones who has no clue what is going on. Theyre just there for the salary lol.
R3dp055um
It's not their lack of knowledge that bothers me, but their inability to accept the fact that the student might be correct and to learn and move forward.
But many USB drives will keep their light on solid after you say "Eject" and the computer has said "It is now safe to eject your drive!"
@@mysticlyweird6474 But then wouldn't it always be SOLID, it wouldn't flash at all if the light was wired to power???
@@mikefellhauer3350 no
That light might be a power light ejecting makes sure no programs are currently writing or reading from that flash drive so you can pull it out without interrupting anything
I thought this comment was meant as a joke. Looks like it's not, in that case, what do you do with those _no light_ usbs? Obviously eject from the system first and when the system says it's ok, physically pull it out
Big brain but my USB doesn't have a light
For Linux users: the 'sync' command can resolve write chaching directly
Or even a simple dismount command 😜
caching*
Last time I looked the modern equivalent of the update daemon to flush dirty buffer cache pages still operates every 10s, so the traditional sh -c "sync; sync" wouldn't really help.
What if your USB is erasing pages, wear levelling or re-writing them? Don't you think telling it to go offline anticipating power loss is safer?
@@RobBCactive it's safer but to just resolve write caching e.g. on a network drive or a USB 'sync' will do the job. Though to just take it 'offline' etc. is still better for USB.
Dang Linus. I was hoping you would say premature ejecting is totally ok and we can now yank our parts at will and take back our lives.
Gavin Seim can I eject safely from this video? or is it to premature and I might become corrupt by this video? 😁
Premature ejecting could be embarassing. Anyway if you yank your parts before the act you may actually last longer. You welcome.
Stargazer 😆😆😆👍 I myself always leave it in and eject a few hours later! 😁
Heh
Gavin Seim premature ejectulating😂😂😂😂😂
Can't help it, I'm a premature ejectulator.
Read as ejaculator xD
fuq my life ;-;
aw come-on folks, we don't need the joke explained... just like and move on.
Not premature, ain't got no Time to wait
lol
Victor Vallim That's the point of the joke...
"True story, happened to a friend of mine"
Can confirm, I was that friend.
You too....Lets get him.
Tim Horton's?
can confirm I was the walls
Summary:
Yes you do, if you don't data might get corrupt
Fawazlol That’s too quick for a tech quickie
Thanks. You just saved me 5 mins
it might
So it becomes a politician?
congratulations on misinformation
I hate it when my PC tells me *your drive can not be ejected at the moment*
Exactly, it's like "bitch I already waited for you? You getting the fuck out bro!" *yank*
The real cause of that message is usually not the PC, it's the WinOS running on it.
how to force windows to eject the usb drive or usb hdd when the os say some @sshole program still working on it without shutdown the computer?
close every windows. that might do the trick
I hate this about Windows. Ejecting on Linux is more forceful than Windows, and I rarely have it tell me that it is unable to eject.
I for one am extremely disappointed that the 'elect' button doesn't spit the USB out half way across the room.
fcukugimmeausername like a toaster?
Solder Heart yes, but stronger and horizontal.
same. but that mechanism would take up alot of space. would be cool in a desktop maybe
Substitute elect for eject
2 months and I didn't even realise. Lol.
1:18 It funny until I heard the word "True story happened to a friend of mine"...
I just wonder, why this friend hasn't had ANY copy of his thesis on any other device? I saved my master thesis during writing on two external hard drives, one USB drive and the internal drive, as well as I had it uploaded into Google Drive ;)
This guy builds expensive computers.. I wonder if he let his friend go homeless or helped him out?
I would have saved mine on my USB flash drive, my USB SATA SSD, my C: drive, and OneDrive.
@@acmenipponair i think that happened years ago in Linus's life. Back then backing up files like that wasn't a norm.
I've been lucky that I've never had files destroyed or lost by not ejecting first, but now I know, I'm definitely taking the time to eject. Thank you for educating me!
Well you SHOULD ALWAYS EJECT your USB Flash Drive first before removing it
If it's so easy to corrupt data, why dont' computers have an actual "eject" button to press first?
it has...its called "shutdown" button. There's a difference between hard drives and flash drives. Hard drive is basically a disk, which cant be corrupt easily and flash drives data are stored in a chip which can be at risk on corrupting your data.
Larry Bundy Jr y
The real answer is it's not. As long as you've completed your write cycle, just pull the bitch out.
Anyone who thinks you need to eject a usb drive before you remove it doesn't have a clue how they work.
Steven Mactavish I'm positive that's not why it happened. Think about how many devices don't even have an eject option.
Data has been getting corrupted long before SD cards and USB ports. Sometimes factory defects, sometimes user error, sometimes even poor data management by the OS. Reguardless, if you are not currently writing data to the device there is nothing unplugging it can possibly do to it.
also you never know if some program isn't accessing your USB drive for some reason WHILE you pull it out ...
things like that can happen. (especially with newer software that likes to scan drives to import new photos, and so on)
I learned the hard way in middle school about just pulling out a USB drive and had it corrupted. When I was in high school, before we got Google Docs that multiple people could edit on, we would get together in groups with multiple people with several laptops and one USB that we would have on Word doc on, edit it with our part, and pass it on to the next person. In my group we had to use my personal USB drive and I was mortified. I made my classmates eject my drive every time before pulling it out and they would get all huffy and annoyed and say it didn't matter. The only way I got them to listen was to tell them that I was using my personal drive and that whomever messed it up would have to buy me a new one and that we would lose our project and have to start again.
True story, shortly after I started working at an MSP my boss cackled when I asked if he was going to use the eject function before disconnecting a USB hard drive. That hard drive literally lost its partition table.
*accidentally bumps thumb drive*
Haha, I'm in danger.
Valuable Life Advice:
Don't drink and drive.
Don't throw rocks at bears.
Eject your freaking USB drive.
Here's another one for the list:
Don't throw shit at an armed man. (Niven's 1st law)
[Corrollary: Don't stand next to someone who's throwing shit at an armed man.]
Don't stand next to an armed man who's getting shit thrown at him (you don't want any of it to splash on you after all)
I throw bears at rocks
Think of not ejecting your USB drive as not closing a book when you put it on the bookshelf.
You can do it a few time and the book is still readable, but if you shove an open book into a bookshelf enough times, you'll start tearing pages up, making it unreadable.
Interesting metaphor, but makes sense!
Really good analogy.
I've always ejectulated first but good shit.
👍👍
Well then I'll just get some tape and stick the torn pages back together. That will make it readable again.
Spot on analogy. Did you steal this from someone else?
my dad is the most tech savvy person in my family so, of course, when he finished modding my 2ds sd card and i finished editing my acnl save, he ejected and waited for the "safe to remove" prompt before removing the sd card and inserting it back into my 2ds (my 2ds is pretty much my life now so of course we didn't want to run the risk of data corruption even though my dad did create a folder on his desktop and copy-pasted everything on the sd card into it)
My sister has a modded 2ds too and i got a modded new 2ds xl
I got a modded 3dsxl
I completely forgot that was even a thing you could do.
"Try closing you're eyes, and picture a cd tray sliding out, for a little bit of computing nostalgia"
me with a modern pc with a cd drive...
youse dat cd dryve to learnt spalling
your*
@@haseenabadshah5381 you dumbass its you're get good at english dum dum
@@rixy560 This is a ridiculous thread, but I guess I’m adding to it.
your = possessive: "your eyes” = the eyes you have
you’re = you are: “you’re eyes” = you are eyes
It’s your eyes. Not you are eyes.
@@yehoshuas.6917 ahhaah okay sorry im so bad at english xd
Always eject sd cards first. I've corrupted way to many cards in photography, luckily it was just my personal ones.
you misspelt pornography
@@squidblaster3327 how do I delete someone else comment
@@natend741 you report it and hope that whatever black hole that leads to ends up doing something.
I have never ejected a drive and even plugged out an ssd with my OS on it so yeah I won’t do that
@@squidblaster3327 oh hush
You guys are so helpful. I'm currently studying for my A+ exam and every time I have some stupid question ab a specific topic, you have a video about it. Thankyou all so much for such great content
video title: do you really need to eject usb drives?
let me save you 5 and a half minutes: yes you SHOULD do it.
there you go.
i always try to eject and Windows then usually says no. so i go to task manager and restart Explorer, which sometimes frees the drive from Windows' clutches. if it still refuses to let it go i just disconnect the drive anyway because goddammit Windows, at least fucking tell me what you're doing with the drive that's so important
^^^ This for sure.
Valfaun If you eject the USB in Explorer then it works better than using the system tray icon. I find that I have to click eject twice if I use the system tray, but it works instantly in Explorer.
Exactly this. I have a portable hard drive, and even software like USB safely remove I can't get windows to let me safely eject it.
totally this
I just keep an eye on the activity light on the external drive. If it stops blinking, I pull it out even of Windows says otherwise.
when you watch linus' video with linus' ads...
perfection
Computer : "you pulled out right?"
Usb drive : "yeah"
0:43 "physically ejected CD ROMs" ROM is the key point, meaning Read Only Memory, yeah? With Flash Drives you can read *and* write.
They're not ROMs, but CD-RWs could be written to, as well. What a terrible and pointless technology they were.
@@encycl07pedia- Linus specifically said "CD-ROM"
1:05 is the reason I now always eject my flash drives.
Always do it. I always ejected my drives, until one day, my computer was being stupid, and I pulled it out without ejecting it. That was the only time I had done that, and that one time I _did_ do it, it corrupted my entire flash drive with like 7 years worth of stuff, and made it completely unusable.
I was told to use some programme to recover scraps of files, but that just returned corrupted versions of the files, and even after formatting the drive, it was still completely unusable.
I did it ONCE. And that one time I did it, it corrupted everything. So never think, "oh, it'll be fine just this once.".
@Frank Winkhorst, yeah, luckily, I had done a backup about a month earlier, but I still lost everything I had done in that month. I now do it once a week, or after I do anything really important.
Why do you store your files on flash drives, tho? I mean, it is even safer on hard drives or cloud storage
This sounds like a PSA for why drugs are bad ☠️
The worst time to do it is when your computer "is being stupid."
If your computer is saying "You can't eject this. It's still in use.", you *really* can't just take it out.
1:49 I'm not epileptic, but a warning for the flashing lights would be very kind to those who are
Lol no
69 the Liker here
Get over it and if you watch videos while having this you deserve it. Just god telling you to keep your eyes shut.
Let someone with this defect comment before you go on a holy crusade. While I am all up for accessibility, there is definitely a upper limit we are reaching with these sort of arguments. We can't realistically accomodate for every physical handicap or political opinion in our daily lives neither should we have to. It is upto epileptic person to lower their brightness or some other solution.
Why does he look like Linus tech tips
he sounds like him too...
doppelganger?
A lot of TH-camrs are about his age? But I agree.
Because he is....
Probably his dad
Cuz hes LTT Linus tech tips doppelganger.
Someone calculate please what amount of time an average person spends ejecting usb drives in their lifetime
2 hours per 10 years, assuming 2 seconds and ejecting it once a day
I lost a file 15 years ago and had to get up and walk 10 steps back to the other computer to copy it onto the drive again, that is 5 minutes of my life I will never get back, you cannot put a price on that, I always make sure to eject my USB flash drives.
Bubbauk88 lmfao
So let's assume that the general user ejects a USB drive from their PC at least 2 or 3 times per day, so that's 6 seconds per day (this will then factor in days where the USB drive is not used I would think).
Now there's 7 days per week so that makes it 42 seconds of ejecting per week, and 52 weeks in a year bringing us to a total of 2184 seconds per year (or 36 minutes and 24 seconds).
Let's assume that the average user starts using USB drives at around age 5 and the typical life expectancy is around 75-80 (could be higher but I'm making assumptions).
So that's about 70-75 years of using USB drives, at 2184 seconds per year of ejecting, the average time spent in a lifetime ejecting USB drives amounts to about 152880 - 163800 seconds.
That's roughly between 1day 18hours 28minutes and 1day 21hours 30minutes.
So, when you think about it, you waste almost 2 days of your entire life ejecting USB drives 😂😂
Bubbauk88 same happened to me. Never again. Say no to premature ejecting.
"prehistoric 1990s".......
Ouch.
in tech years....prehistoric
hey its not my fault i'm stuck on this old 90s potato
nfs iii ftw
Philippe cf
It hurt 😞
thank you for the advise linus tech tips
Yup I often had the same question in my mind. I often also experienced the same corruption problem at the same time. Nowadays I eject first then I remove it. Linus thanks for the video.👍
People might say that "life is too short to eject USB drives" but my *porn* collection is too valuable to take that chance.
So your porn collection is only 4-32 GB? Wow thats really small.
@@Fankas2000 where did you get 4-32??
@@caseybear910fe Thats the size of most USB drives.
Fankas2000 64 & 128 are very cheap nowadays
@@MichaelWarne Which part of "most" did you not get? Plus if you are going in to th 128 GB territory then you might as well just buy an external hard drive.
Always flush your buffers kids
Oh, I never knew you’re supposed to eject it. Thanks.
4:11
Why imagine when I already have a dvd drive built into one of my laptops?
I tried to click the subscribe button twice but it says "unsubscribe".
ok
Use an alt account
i think its cuz you broke your computer by not ejecting the usb drive properly
That's how dumb the topic of this video is, right?
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Living on the edge is hard. Corrupted data is the cost we pay for living on the fast lane!
That's probably what happened to all of those loser democrats and liberals. They all pulled out without ejecting. Now they are all stupid.
You never see anybody eject an USB in a Hollywood movie, just before they copy the files from the CIA server & save the world.
Thanks a lot for the video
Had cases where the thumb drives became unwritable anymore after an unsafe removal ( glaring at sandisk ). Usually i just yanked them out after ensuring all processes that's been using it was closed.
I've had a project that's corrupted because I took my USB drive pulled out, mid-saving... started over, got traumatized, learned my lesson...
DANDAN THE DANDAN
This is why you copy files rather than just moving them
AndyTom At that time, I didn't know what was the best choice... I had the file in my USB and not in the computer...
DANDAN THE DANDAN
Ah gotya. Man I just hate losing important data. That must've been a real bitch
AndyTom It was a coding class and I lost the game I was working on. Luckily it was just a simple game since back then I didn't know anything complex. The good thing was that we were already working on another game just for fun and decide to use that game for the project instead.
This was why I used Google Docs when I was in College.
I always eject it because I don't want to risk losing my porn
_Preciooouuuusss_
You’re confusing this with pulling out too late!
Ew
Are you Randy Pitchford?
@nersoparanaense I know that joke XD
The cdrom eject is a better example than you think. In my years working on personal computers I came across plenty of drives that when you hit "eject" would spit out the tray with the disk still spinning. Scratched the crap out of more than a few discs. Once it spit the tray out just right with the disc still spinning that it flew across the room from the tray. Reminded me of one of the demon friends of PinHead.
"Living in a box behind Tim Hortons"
Yes, Linus is Canadian alright
U got weird friends linus
Big Smoke he's one of them
In the UNIX paradigm (Android, ChromeOS, Linux, MacOSX etc.), removing storage unceremoniously leaves a "dirty bit" set, so the next time you mount it, it will fsck before mounting. That's not necessarily a Bad Thing. I check filesystem integrity by default just to be safe. Usually when the light for the device stops flashing, the cache has been flushed and you're safe. In Linux you can simply issue a `sync' command or literally `eject /dev/thatdrive' and these can be included into a script to make things drop-dead simple.
HEY YA BOI GENTOO USER HERE that is also a big show off because I use Gentoo
Do you really need to do sync before umount? Will umount not automatically do what sync does?
If it doesn't, it's time for a dang pull request
I just right-click the icon of my removable drive and click Eject Volume (Linux Mint)
tfw i make a comment explaining basically what you said, then scrolls down in the comments to see this...
potato potato potato potato potato potato potato lmfaooo another computer idiot thinking windoze is the best OS 😂😂😂😂👌👍
@Noorquacker umount calls sync. Now remember if you’re using the USB as a block device, i.e. writing a bootable live USB, you usually need the file system on it unmounted, so there’s nothing to umount. You then have to sync it.
I think it's gotten much better. I remember I had a digital camera in the early 00's and removing it without ejecting destroyed all of my photos. I've never had any issues since, although if it's anywhere near important data, I'll always hit eject before removing.
Typing a research paper for my Physician Assistant program my computer died and upon turning back on the blue screen of death came up. After rebooting my entire 11 page masterpiece was gone! Crying I called my professor at 12 am and she basically said, “sucks to suck, can’t prove you’re not lying”. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS SAVE THINGS PROPERLY AFTER EACH PARAGRAPH!!!
Well, physically ejecting CD is the same as ejecting USB drive. The tray doesn't open on you still spinning LOL
Do you remember in windows XP and vista, when you removed the CD while running something from it, the persistent error window named NO DISK "Ignore" "Retry" "Cancel" when you had to click few hudred times to make it gone ?
@@MobileRecordingsRo Oh yeah! Retro all the way. The coolest in WinXP was the puppy giving you instructions.
@N 4 fking sure!
I never used to eject, for years, but one time I lost an irreplaceable file, so now I eject when dealing with important data.
Oh my Gawd. This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks sooooo much!
Thanks learned a lot today 🙏🏼👌
I always eject them without disabling it from settings. Never got a data loss or damaged anything on a usb port.
Write caching more than doubled my external hard drive performance, it used to be limited to 30mb/s despite being connected through usb 3, then afterwards it goes upto 100mb/s. Which helps when i do many TBs worth of transfers between drives.
That...doesn't sound right.
Thanks for the prudent advice Linus.
Always use safe eject for external hard drives because they should stop spinning before power cuts off. If you think just pulling USB flash drive out is safe, you can do it, but I always use safe eject for any external storage. In macOS, safe ejection is easier than in Windows.
The only time I forgot to go through the eject process before removing my external hard drive, sure enough I lost everything on the external drive. Luckily I still had it all on my computer but I hope to never forget that again!
Pro tip: you can use EasyUS data recovery to recover any info from corrupted or even raw partition of any drive
I always wanted to know that, THX LTT team
Silver Shine you work for THX?
justinl458 perhaps
@LinusGSebastian, you are AWESOME!!
Interesting never gave that a thought
Good to know thanks Linus
7 million views, lol, that's a little optimistic 0:11
WE HAVE TO GET IT TO 7.2M+ VIEWS.
So my external hard drive doesn't have an eject option. Should I just yank out? What I've been doing is leaving it running until I turn the computer off, then unplug it before I turn it back on.
if you plug it out during the write process, then the files get broken and some operating systems can not handle that without breaking
Depends on your Sytem settings.
windows
right click on drive
properties
third tab
disable setting wich states data loss if removed unsafely
tyg
never had any problems with that since winxp, but tbh i everytime look at the "busy" LED of the Stick and it happened sometimes already that the stick wasnt ready for eject/pull out even 3-4 sec after the copy job was done in windows. so just watch the led and pull the stick if he shows no activity
0:34
I’m sorry, but did you just try to plug a USB into a Mac!
Uh, what do you mean? Most Macs have USB ports. The only one that doesn't is the new MacBook.
I'm more disturbed by the location. Were they plugging it into the battery? The USB port is in the top right on that model.
@Rushil Kasetty you're missing the point, this was meant to make fun of the fact that Apple has decided to strip as many ports as possible from all of their tech, even iPhone. Usb is getting more and more scarce, which is kind of scary considering the vast majority of people use the standard usb layout, whether it be usb 1 2 or 3. Not many people have usb c removable drives yet, and it's kind of a pain to go out and by a whole dongle just to plug in a usb stick. On paper it looks desireable because the design is slim light and sleek, but in practice, it's more of a hassle than it's really worth, but Apple isn't really listening to the general public. Otherwise they'd add a usb 3.1 port to the MacBook, and a headphone jack to the iPhone.
Kenneth Fleming yes I agree, but his comment didn't seem to be a joke to me. I guess sorry if it was though.
Apple products are awful. Check out Louis Rossmann group if you don;t know why
"Das Leben ist zu kurz um Hardware sicher zu entfernen."
Dude, I am very thankful TH-cam algorithm brought me to this video. Recently, I had problems with corrupted files on my flash drives. I realized I have this habit of not properly ejecting flash drives. Now, the memories of my lost data are haunting me for that stupidity.
Back in the days, I was actually pretty careful about ejecting CD drives. I actually had a couple of times where Windows (98 SE, I think) bluescreened on me because I ejected a CD that was still in use.
Yep, I lost 50gb of porn by doing this... won't ever do that again
chris p That'll teach anyone not to just yank it! 🍆
Never pull out.
XD
Good.
i bet that p0rn was good
I pulled my 8gb USB out of my chromebook without an eject, instantly removed all of the data on there... Don't do it on Chrome OS
Chrome OS is based on Linux
gfrewqpoiu yeah, but different Linux distros run differently. There are some that will only have it mount whenever it's actually needed, there are some that will constantly use it, and risk corruption if it's removed.
Not really. The IO scheduler is the same between distros because they all use the same kernel.
Subsentient I've used multiple distros, I'm well aware they use the same kernel but they do different things sometimes.
I guess some DEs might do things differently, but I haven't seen it on GNOME, MATE, KDE, XFCE or Enlightenment.
any explaination for this: my computer will sometimes gradually freeze randomly, as genrealized as that question is the fact that everything slowly stops working as if the processer stopped processing is kinda strange compared to the usual sudden death.
Good advice. Discovered this when transferring a program to a late 90's CNC machine via USB. Every time it would error out unless I used the eject option on a windows PC. Something to do with DOS operating system on the machine I'm guessing.
I've had more corruption on my sd card than a usb stick and that never leaves my phone.
I've bricked a USB flash drive and an SD card by not ejecting.
Me either
Same here!
i guess you guys learned your lessons ? lol
@Adkatka really? No crap. Not like he said that or anything
Destroyed my 128 GB pro DSLR SD card by yanking it out of my pc. I had no clue Microsoft decided to start moving stuff and now it isn’t even recognised by my pc and my camera says it’s unreadable :(
This is why I always buy usb drives with activity lights! Especially when using them in non-pc devices like Western Digital video-playing boxes, or the direct play slot of a TV set!
Not ejecting your USB drives is like randomly making someone go into labor like "you're taking to long to have that baby, yank" and now you have a metaphorical corrupted fetus.
i thought modern drives have a built in mechanism to allow "yanking out" without major corruptions, since i remember in an old windows xp pc i yanked an old 1gb drive and all the pc usb port is disabled (or went off for some reason) and the drive is toast
i still yank my drive out especially when they just go "bleh" and hangs everytime i plug it in and so far no dead/corrupt drive along with its data
G3 the operating system would have to have this function, since it does the writing/reading behind the curtain which you interrupt by just pulling out
an dead/corrupted flash drive (even if does not show) can usually be repaired/reformated with any advanced disk utility.
I hate it then USB drives go "bleh"
Yes, definitely always eject even if write caching is off. You never know what the OS is currently doing. I wish the OS developers across the board would introduce an "Ok to eject?" option though. I've often experienced that the "You can now eject the USB drive" is being suppressed because of something else that just happened at the same time so I never actually got to see it. And sometimes it takes a long time for it to pop up due to much data having been cached which makes you uncertain since there's no progress bar anywhere. So a more obvious way to show whether a drive is ready for un-plugging that could be clicked would be a bit help. In general it's just really badly designed as it is right now, on all platforms.
That's not a bad idea. Some thumdrives already have color LEDs. Why cant they just make it to where it's lit up read, it means "Dont remove" and green means it's OK to eject. Most of the time, I just see the stupid LED blinking.... which is hardly useful other than knowing that the computer is reading or writing to the drive.
Word! I was wondering Linus to tell us what should we do if the system doesn't allow you to eject the device properly because whatever the fuck is still writing or doing but I'm not currently opening files or making use of it under any program, not alternative but just pull it out when that happens.
Or you have a shit PC. I've never encountered a problem where the eject message never popped up
That feeling, when you hear eject in this context for the first time in your live XD
Is the data previously saved in jeopardy of being corrupted or only the material currently being saved? My external hardrive often gets loose and ejects on its own unfortunately.
yes, if you plug it out *during the write process,* then the files get broken and some major operating systems can not handle that without breaking :-)
If you have an SSD in an external enclosure then you should always properly unmount it :)
No OS can handle that... At best you have some resilient file system on the stick (hint: you don't. Because neither Windows nor OS X support those) that can fall back to the last version.
"Answer is a definite probably" -Linus
how humans work
- pull out thumb drive
- thumb drive gets corrupted
- blames the thumb drive
When I was in desktop support, I can't tell you how many times users just yanked the thumb drive and bricked the thing. I was just like, "Well, you have to buy a new one now."
Sounds "supportive"
Removes USB mouse while using it. Plugs it back on - data corrupted
Hahaha
"surprised pikachu meme"
You joke but that actually happened to my OG Razer Death Adder and, according to the internet at the time, I wasn't the only person it happened to.
I already learned the hard way.
i basicly only use the eject butten if its the only copy i have or its a hard drive / backup harddrive
what i like even more than just a corrupted file after unplugging the usb is when for some reason thats only logical to windows that drive is locked into read only mode, and you have to jump a few hoops to get it back to be able to safe or delete files again
What happens if you unplug your PC while it's working?
What happens to an HDD and an SSD if the you unplug the PC without turning it off?
Same things. There is a chance of data corruption. I have bricked many drives due (including new SSDs) due to PC power loss.
Usually nothing happens,but it can corrupt your data.
My sister has been through 7 ish drives in the last 6 months because she never ejects it, it ends up either deleting files or corrupting the whole drive. Make sure you eject if you use them for any sort of work or school
she must be doing somethign else wrong i not even knew this was a thing and been not doing it my whole life never had a drive fail or corrupt
...she could just reformat the drive afterwards
Fuck some people are dumb
She's not the most tech savvy person if you haven't already guessed, i dont even think she knows what formatting is
U rlly a mek him diss ur sister suh?
+Kendokaa Or use a tool such as testdisk to rebuild the partition. There is a part of the drive which tells a computer how files are stored on it, and when that part is damaged your computer isn't able to find any of the files, even though they are often still there. Some tools can scan the full drive to rebuild that part and you'll have most of your data back. Such tools can take hours to do that though.
TY!
Hello. Thanks for this always-nice-to-remember-tips video. Anyways, maybe you should have detailed the risks of hot ejecting flash drives and hot ejecting USB external hard drives. HDD are very susceptible kids so maybe the philosophy is different. Moreover, sometimes, Windows refuses you to eject your drive even if you ask it. There is a possibility to do it another way, like killing applications that really use the drive or eject it in the desktop window and to the popup "USB drive still in use", you can choose to stop the OS using the USB drive and allow you to remove it.