ELi5: Why does pulling a USB drive out before you select “eject” matter?
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Your computer has an order it does things in, on occasion writing the data to the flash drive might not be what it immediately does when it is told to do that.
If you pull the drive out *without* ejecting it and this is the case you will either:
A: not write anything to the drive.
B: only partially write to the drive and make a corrupt file.
C: pull the current from it while it’s being read as a device and possibly damage a sector on the disk, possibly losing some data.
If you *eject* the disk the computer goes “oh I need to do this thing to something that needs to be removed, I better do that *now*” and will immediately write whatever data to the drive instead and then stop recognizing the drive to prevent damage as you unplug it.
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