'Safely remove' or 'eject'

Gers

I get both options when using a USB device and always dither between the two. Does it matter which I choose?

Interestingly (for me at least) I sometimes get neither option. Anyway, which is the better option please?

Thanks

RumRat

They are basically the same. The eject would do just that if you were using a CD to write to.
It doesn't matter which you choose.

Sooler

Safely Remove - if you're bothered about data being saved to the device

Eject or just yank it out if you’re not

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100519184538AAtBFRY

paddyrg

What it's all about is to make sure any 'write' processes are finished before they get interrupted by removing the device. TBH I personally rarely bother with an eject as long as I'm sure there are no pending 'write's - your confidence to do this may vary of course!

RumRat

Sooler wrote: »

Safely Remove - if you're bothered about data being saved to the device

Eject or just yank it out if you’re not

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100519184538AAtBFRY

The default in Windows is that it's not necessary to use safely remove as writing to the cache is turned off by default. You can change it in device manager if you want.
That said, it's only a click away and not exactly a bad habit to get into...As nothing is infallible.

paddyrg

Robisere

If you are concerned, and no message appears when you click the 'Remove' icon, just open <Computer (or Libraries)> - find the USB key and right click it. One of the choices will be <Eject>

debitcardmayhem

Robisere wrote: »

If you are concerned, and no message appears when you click the 'Remove' icon, just open <Computer (or Libraries)> - find the USB key and right click it. One of the choices will be <Eject>

Not necessarily , if one of the background processes has not closed it , the main culprits are backup programs and antivirus suites, then neither of eject and safely remove appear, strangely enough format always seems to appear

esuhl

Sooler wrote: »

Safely Remove - if you're bothered about data being saved to the device

Eject or just yank it out if you’re not

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100519184538AAtBFRY

Really? I always thought that both "safely remove" and "eject" unmounted the filesystem, but the latter also sent an "eject" signal to the drive.

It would be pretty daft if the OS let you eject a mounted filesystem with an un unsaved cache.

RumRat

esuhl wrote: »

Really? I always thought that both "safely remove" and "eject" unmounted the filesystem, but the latter also sent an "eject" signal to the drive.

It would be pretty daft if the OS let you eject a mounted filesystem with an un unsaved cache.

Eject, is now the only option given on my machine and most of the other PC's I have access to. So if you have both it doesn't matter which you use.
As Windows doesn't write to the cache by default, it doesn't really matter if you use it or not in theory. As I said before though, it doesn't hurt to get in the habit to be 100% sure.;)
All those spies who are building tension as the baddy approaches and they are stealing data onto a stick, would have major problems as they just yank the stick out at the last minute, if they had to go through the safely remove routine...:D