Thread: Friends don't let friends pull it out prematurely (Safely remove hardware : to eject or not to eject?) Poll
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2010-04-03 , 21:05
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#19
Originally Posted by SAABoy View Post
So you claim that as long as you aren't transferring any files on or off the storage device, you could physically take it out and it'd be the same thing as 'eject'ing?
If you can be sure that NO APPLICATION is transferring files, and Windows continues to keep write through as default for external media (XP does, don't have Vista) then yes. But of course, the "no application" part is hard for you to know.

(Note that I still suggest using safely remove, because it's good practice and will allow MS to one day allow write caching for removable media, which is a good thing to do)