Today, flash drives have definitely entered our lives. Such small devices that take up little space, you can take them with you with a lot of necessary information. But using flash drives, you need to work with them correctly, and know about safe removal from the computer. Incorrectly removing the USB flash drive from the computer, we can not only lose important data, but also completely break it
Why do you need to safely remove a USB flash drive?
A USB flash drive, or simply a flash drive, is used to store various kinds of information. Replaced floppy disks and optical disks. It is more compact, has enough memory to store not only documents, but also video and audio files, and allows you to rewrite various data many times.
Operating systems behave almost the same with any disk. This applies not only to flash drives, but also to hard drives built into the case. The data that needs to be written first goes into memory and is there for some time. Also, the read data is cached in RAM, in case they are needed again.
This makes the system faster. Indeed, at a time, only one write or read operation can be performed with a hard disk or flash drive, and perhaps at the moment the system has more important tasks than writing your file.
If the USB stick is removed, all processes associated with the device are terminated and the power supply is cut off. Thus, the drive can be protected from many problems.
An example would be shutting down a running computer from the network. Many have noticed that after this system recovery begins. So here, only to restore functionality will have to be done manually, which can turn out to be much more complicated than automated processes in Windows.
If you do not use this feature and simply remove the USB drive from your computer, you may end up losing data. As long as you do not safely remove the device, the computer has free access to it and, under some circumstances, the PC may try to continue recording data at the time of removal.
How to safely remove a USB flash drive from a mac computer
Eject Drive on Mac:
- Drag the USB flash drive icon that will appear on the desktop when you connect it for the first time to the trash can;
- Drag the flash drive icon to the trash can
- Or click on the "Eject" icon next to the name of the flash drive in the "Finder" window
You can also extract using a combination:
Select the icon of the drive you want to remove and press the key combination Command + E
Context menu:
Right-click on the drive icon and select "Eject" in the context menu that appears. The context menu can also be called up in the window displaying the contents of the drive.
In some cases, the drive may refuse to disconnect. This usually happens due to the fact that an application is using it. Close it and try removing the drive again. As a last resort, when you still cannot find the application you need, you can try to reboot the system.
Another reason why the drive may not want to be removed is that other images were mounted from it.
