Microsoft Drops 'Safe Removal' of USB Drives As Default In Windows 10 1809 (betanews.com)

Mark Wilson writes: Since the arrival of USB drives, we have been warned that they need to be 'safely removed' using the correct method in Windows, rather than just being yanked out — but now this changes.

With Windows 10 1809, Microsoft is changing the default setting that's applied to USB drives and other removable media. The change means that the default policy applied to removable storage devices is Quick Removal rather than Better Performance — so you can now just pull it out without a second thought.

Comments

Awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally this annoying stupid misfeature will go away. Now if they only could with the horrible fake scanning for "fixing errors" after you've used a USB stick on Linux...

Re:Good luck with that

[gweihir]

Sometimes customer and software availability does not give you a choice. But you already knew that answer. Being opposed to Windows use for anything is fine, I am too, but your childish stance is harming the cause.

Re:Good luck with that

[ShanghaiBill]

This essentially just shows that MS does not care about your data at all.

To the contrary, they are lowering performance to improve data safety.

A larger write will take time, and data will be corrupted if you just "yank it out".

Users yank it out anyway. This change will make it safer for them.

Since nobody uses thumb drives for high performance computing, this change is a sensible improvement.

Re:Good luck with that

[gweihir]

And how would the average user know? This is an unsafe default, plain ans simple. It is asking for people to get hurt. It is exceptionally bad design.

Re:I don't have Windows 10

[xlsior]

Autorun of has been disabled for many years on writable media like flash drives in windows, it only does it on read-only media like CD-ROM