An external drive is easy to tell if activity has stopped, for
ejection purposes, but not other devices, such as thumb drives or
the VR Stream. As a sighted person you may tell by looking, but
we, the blind, have to tell by vibration.
Maria Campbell
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On 3/16/2019 2:44 PM, Brian Vogel
wrote:
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2019
at 02:22 PM, Bill White wrote:
Safely Remove Hardware icon to show up, and it isn’t
there, then you must shut down your system to safely remove the
inserted hardware.
I'm not arguing with anything else but this. The Eject/Safely
Remove Hardware function is an anachronism in all but the very
rarest of circumstances. All the way back to Windows 7 Microsoft
changed the default behavior for USB connected devices to stop
caching writes, because people were doing "the natural thing" and
pulling out jump drives and external USB drives once it appeared
all activity had ceased. The problem was if the last activity had
been write, the final block of data might not be written unless
you ejected.
I just went through all this in the topic, Ejecting Hard
Drives and Flash Drives ....., on Bleeping Computer
when it came up the other day. It won't hurt to use Eject, but
it's utterly unnecessary on most systems unless someone has done
customizations to go back to write caching for USB devices. You
can verify this for yourself for any USB drive you happen to have
plugged in by bringing up its Properties, Hardware Tab, Properties
button in the Hardware Tab, General Tab in that Properties dialog,
Change Settings button, then, finally, the Policies tab in
this final Properties dialog. The radio button for, Quick Removal
(default), will be chosen unless someone has tweaked the Windows
installation defaults, and this is described as: Disables
write caching on the device and in Windows, but you can
disconnect the device safely without using the Safely Remove
Hardware notification icon.
I haven't used the eject function literally in decades
provided I know that there is no active writing going on to a
given thumb drive or external HDD connected via USB. It's an
extra step that, while it won't hurt, generally does nothing
unless you were to be in the process of actively writing to the
drive, then the eject will not be permitted until that's done.
--
Brian - Windows
10 Home, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763
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