EHDs that have their own power supplies tend to work more reliably. This can be a problem if the PC’s motherboard does not supply enough power to the USB port you are using or if the drive is plugged into a non-powered hub. Some external hard drives draw their power from the USB port and they may not get enough. The port, the connecting cable, the power supply and the external hard drive (EHD) can all suffer from physical and/or electrical faults. Having said all that, it does not hurt anything to go through that Safely remove option - especially with external hard drives.Lots of things can go wrong. I use them primarily to backup data files only. But frankly, except for service calls, I rarely ever run programs from an external drive. HOWEVER comma - If I have opened a file from that external drive, or especially if I am " running a program" from that external drive, I make sure I have saved any opened files and exited or closed out that program before pulling the plug. I wait a few seconds after writing (saving) anything to the drive, then I just pull it out. Today's hard drives are much faster and typically come with much larger (32MB or larger) integrated buffers.Įven going back to XP, I always set those devices for "Quick write" so any caches and buffers would quickly clear (all data would be written to the disk immediately) and I could remove the drive without having to go through that Safely Remove option.
This was frequently a problem back in the day when hard drives were much slower and came with tiny (as small as 2MB) built in buffers. It was there for those devices where Windows delayed writes to a device so Windows could return resources back to the user and other programs more quickly. Click to expand.It never was a set-in-concrete rule.
0 kommentar(er)
