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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In simple terms, imagine talking to a friend on the phone and then the call abruptly ends. Pretty shit aye? It’s the same principle here. The Computer needs to say goodbye and stop talking (Read/writing data etc) before it can eject the device. This is to prevent corruption (files like photos, videos, text, music etc from being damaged).

I cannot overstate enough that you should always, *always* eject, lost enough data over the years to act otherwise.

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