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| Yank it out whenever I'm done with it |
   
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5 | 21.74% |
| Use the "safely remove hardware" feature |
  
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17 | 73.91% |
| Shut down the computer, then remove it |
  
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1 | 4.35% |
| I never remove it!! |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Something else, perhaps? |
  
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0 | 0% |
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01-15-2008, 09:05 PM
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Removing USB devices
Just curious as to how many actually follow through with the proper procedure, and how many just take a shortcut
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01-15-2008, 09:07 PM
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Call me paranoid. I always stop it using the tray icon before removing it.
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01-15-2008, 09:10 PM
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I must be Paranoid as well then Alaron...
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01-15-2008, 09:10 PM
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I ALWAYS use the add remove hardware feature although i really never understood why you have to do that.... But yah I'm with them too as well
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01-15-2008, 09:11 PM
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Yup, me too on the "safely remove" idea. However, the real killer of flash drives seems to be more oriented toward insertion rather than removal. Static discharge thru the flash drive kills em quick. I make it a habit to lay my hand on the metal case before inserting any usb device.
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01-15-2008, 09:57 PM
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I actually use the safe to remove thing when taking my mp3 player out, but for my little 2gb flash drive, I just pull it out after I'm done using it.
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01-15-2008, 11:34 PM
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Ditto. I get a kick out of "Trashing" the drive when properly ejecting the drive on OS X machines - literally, drag the drive over to the trash.
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01-15-2008, 11:50 PM
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I always use proper procedure because I have Win2K and it scolds me if I don't.
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01-16-2008, 12:23 AM
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The only USB device I ever have to unplug is my flash drive, and for that I use the "safely remove" option. Heheh....my brother uses that too, after what happened the first time he used his new flash drive. He didn't know about the "safely remove" procedure and thinking that USB things were hot swappable, when he was done with it, he just pulled it out. Upon doing so, his monitor screen went blank and the computer rebooted. When it came back up, it gave him the "Windows has recovered from a serious error" screen. Ever since that happened, he's a definite user of the safe removal option.
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01-16-2008, 01:07 AM
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Nice survey!
See post#9 in the thread/link below... TIP: AVOID HAVING TO SAFELY REMOVE YOUR USB FLASH DRIVE http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=191503#9 ---pete--- |
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01-16-2008, 01:22 AM
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I only use safely remove hardware for memory devices, everything else I just pull out.
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01-16-2008, 08:48 AM
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Well, I often use "safely remove hardware", but in some cases, if Windows can't stop the USB devices, I will try to logoff or even shutdown, I rarely yank it out in need.
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01-16-2008, 09:35 AM
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I do the "Safely remove..." thing.
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01-16-2008, 10:13 AM
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I never use it and I've been using flash drives for over 5 years now and haven't had one fail or go bad.
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01-16-2008, 06:02 PM
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I always use it with a sandisk usb drive. For some reason they seem to crap out real easily so i try to be real gentle on them. I have gone through several of them over the years yet I have an Dell-Branded old Lexar that came with a pc at work and that works fine whether i use it or not. Just like the PNY i have.
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