why is there a “safe to eject” option for USB sticks?

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After you’ve transfered all your data on/off, why cant you simply take out the stick? where’s the harm?

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It’s the equivalent to the light on floppy drives that indicates when data is being written or read from the drive. Just like you aren’t supposed to eject a floppy disk when the light is on, you also need to make sure the USB is not being written to when you remove it.

If you don’t know what a floppy disk is then you could probably post another eli5 to ask.

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