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Originally Posted by Viro Are you actually serious, or are you just trolling? You need to unmount your USB drive on Windows too. It's just called "Safely remove hardware" or something like that. If you haven't been doing that, don't complain if you suddenly find your data corrupted. |
There's one caveat though. In Windows we can disable "write caching." Supposedly write caching creates this "perceived performance" because it doesn't write to disk right away... it waits for a more opportune time to actually commit the data. Idiotic if you as me, but anyways, you can disable write caching on removable media, then all your external hard drives can "quick disconnect." No need to manual tell the computer to unmount it first.
It's analogous to flushing file buffers, from a programmers angle
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Originally Posted by nixgeek And as for your USB issue?? Think that at least the Mac is letting you know that you can corrupt your data if you don't unmount it properly. Same thing in open-source UNIX/Linux if you think about it. Windows OTOH just allows you to do unplug it with no regard to the fact that you can corrupt your data. If you look carefully, in Windows XP you are warned that you need to STOP YOUR USB DEVICE before you disconnect it. So you're point here is also refuted. |
What's stopping anyone from unplugging an external drive in OSX. Any warning signs, any pop up messages? And regarding "loss of data", in Windows when you MOVE files from one disk to another, the OS actually makes a copy of the files from source to destination. Then it deletes the original source to complete the process of permenantly moving the files from point A to B. If you hit cancel anytime inbetween, the files on the destination get erased, the original source files are kept in tact.
I had one ugly incident a few years ago on my iMac where I was trying to move everything (10 GB of various docs and files) off my FW HD onto my iMac HD so I can reformat the external one into HFS+. Well half way through I said "meh, I change my mind I'll leave it as FAT32 because I'll still need to use the drive on my PC." So I hit cancel. Well that bad news is it bumped into an error because I tried to stop it. But it still thought I wanted those files off that external HD. So it went and deleted them. So then my files were neither in the destination nor the original source...