04-11-2009, 05:42 PM
Doc wrote:
Possibly, but the idiot who tries a delayed write and then yanks his thumb drive offline is likely to find that a few of his files haven't made it onto the drive from the cache yet.
More likely, he thinks the "quick removal" setting protects his data. Sadly, while that might reduce incidents of corrupt files on the drive, it doesn't do much for files that are open/in-use and removing without ejecting can still cause directory damage.
Like I said, reduces, does not eliminate the problem. Since the OS sometimes ignores the setting anyways, still leaves open the possibility a delayed write operation will be used instead of immediate.