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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.
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.
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.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
"Quick removal" means the OS will sync all data to disk BEFORE telling you the copy is complete. So if you wait until the OS says the data has been copied, you will be fine.
This is how floppy disks used to work. As soon as the copy completed the light would go out and you could eject the disk. It really should have been that way by default from the start with thumbdrives.
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.
AmigaOS had this feature, if you ejected a floppy that was in use it would tell you to put it back in and wait for you to do so...
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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.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
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
EVERY SINGLE WINDOWS since XP defaults to "Quick Removal" for ALL removable drives, including every iteration of Windows 10. I have yet to see a single computer running XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or any build of 10 where I plug in an SD card, USB flash drive, or USB hard drive that did NOT automatically default to "Quick Removal." I have ALWAYS, as in 100% of cases, had to manually switch the performance setting through Device Manager. Anyone who says that the default policy is different is flying directly in the face of every single computer I've ever plugged a USB or memory card storage medium into over the past 17-18 years, and that's literally thousands of machines.
The only exception is when a drive is not the system drive but is connected to an internal potentially hot-swappable interface such as an AHCI SATA port. Those get set to "Better Performance" by default because they're almost always not in a removable tray nor connected by eSATA, even though they're technically hot-swappable. Of course, that's not what this Slashdot post is talking about at all, so again...WHAT IS THIS POST EVEN TALKING ABOUT?!
It's not really practical today.
AmigaOS could do that with floppies because back then the computer was 100% in charge of the drive and knew exactly what had gone through and what not.
A modern disk runs an entire OS of its own, and very possibly lies to the OS about its internal state, because lies look better on benchmarks. Just because the drive says "this has been saved", doesn't necessarily it has been.
That means the OS can't really do what you want reliably. It might work with some drives, and fail miserably with others.
If every hard disk was truthful about what's on the platter, and every SSD had the capacitors needed to finish work, this would work nicely. But we unfortunately don't have that.
I find it easier to use the sysinternals command line tool handle rather than procexp for this use.
C:\Temp>handle /?
Nthandle v4.21 - Handle viewer
Copyright (C) 1997-2018 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
usage: handle [[-a [-l]] [-u] | [-c [-y]] | [-s]] [-p |] [name] [-nobanner]
-a Dump all handle information.
-l Just show pagefile-backed section handles.
-c Closes the specified handle (interpreted as a hexadecimal number).
You must specify the process by its PID.
WARNING: Closing handles can cause application or system instability.
-y Don't prompt for close handle confirmation.
-s Print count of each type of handle open.
-u Show the owning user name when searching for handles.
-p Dump handles belonging to process (partial name accepted).
name Search for handles to objects with (fragment accepted).
-nobanner Do not display the startup banner and copyright message.
No arguments will dump all file references.
For example:
C:\Temp>handle VBoxSharedClipboard
Nthandle v4.21 - Handle viewer
Copyright (C) 1997-2018 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com
VirtualBox.exe pid: 6088 type: File 50: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxSharedClipboard.dll
VirtualBox.exe pid: 8008 type: File 50: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxSharedClipboard.dll
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
I yank mine constantly.
Don't we all. It just feels so good.
I get this condition, especially after editing a large MS-Word file on a USB drive and exiting, that Windows never tells you it is OK to pull out the drive.
I am in a hurry, late for a meeting or to catch a ride home, and I never get the "Safe to Remove" message. So I end up having to do a Shut down on the computer to remove the drive when Windows has saved ev-er-y-thing it has cached, but wouldn't you know it, I have to wait for an Update to complete before Windows even shuts down.
This is when one wants to throw the computer out the window, but I never know if it is OK to yank the USB drive before doing this?
Yes, I agree that these problems already had solution a lon....
Disk access failure.
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