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   Woodswalked (woodswalked@mstdn.party)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 09:28:44 JST Woodswalked

   • Melissa BearTrix

   @Melissabeartrix
   Always rip, never had an issue.

   I also think that waiting to eject is for imaginary reasons that have no basis in reality.

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     Woodswalked (woodswalked@mstdn.party)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 09:28:42 JST Woodswalked

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     • Melissa BearTrix

     @Melissabeartrix
     I am certain that there is some tech that is rolling their eyes at me, but my experience is that I have never had corruption on a USB drive.
     I have had them in the clothes washer & dryer repeatedly, have repeatedly dropped them, never used eject. The only time one of them stopped working is after it was bent in half and the shell shattered. Even then, I could get it to work well enough to transfer the data before giving up on it.

     🤷♀️

     Polychrome :blabcat: repeated this.
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     Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️ (stevendbrewer@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 09:28:42 JST Steven D. Brewer 🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Melissa BearTrix

     @Woodswalked @Melissabeartrix Back in the day, I had a friend who used SCSI drives and would frequently hot-swap the connections.

     "You're supposed power those off before swapping the connection," I said.

     "Yeah, I know they *say* that," he said. "But I've never had a problem."

     About a year later, I saw him again and he was powering everything off before swapping the connection.

     "Oh!" I said. "I notice you're powering those off before swapping them out now."

     He grimaced. "Yeah."

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     Melissa BearTrix (melissabeartrix@hugz.online)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 09:28:44 JST Melissa BearTrix

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     @Woodswalked

     I think it does help with the life of the removal media ... Even if it just cuts power to stop it arching and data transfer ... Hugz

     But I could be wrong ... Just what I was told many years ago by a data recovery person

     Hugz & xXx