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Do I really need to Eject USB Drives?

| December 1, 2011

Why Computers Want You to Eject Drives Obviously, yanking out a drive while it’s being written to could corrupt the data. However, even if the drive isn’t activelybeing written to, you could still corrupt the data. By default, most operating systems use what’s called write caching to get better performance out of your computer. When you write [...]