why do you need to turn of hard drives to unplug them instead of just unplugging them

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why do you need to turn of hard drives to unplug them instead of just unplugging them

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Your standard SATA harddrive doesn’t need to be turned off. Unplugging is fine if they’re going back into the same system. If not? They contain data for another computer that doesn’t apply and isn’t corroborated by tables.

If you mean why a computer must be turned off, there’s a high risk of data loss when a machine is running and there’s also a higher chance of frying hardware through touch.