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These are some of the reasons I am glad I don't have a credit card.
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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lucky man...
The hacker choosed my card for fraud transaction after one year 
Shemeer NS
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Were you running java on your credit card? 
Wout
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This is bad
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Why not to block the card online or with phone banking , it's much simpler in India 
Ranjan.D
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blocked
Shemeer NS
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My wife's card got hacked, but luckily the fraudster was spending less on it than she did!
Tish-boom!
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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It took just over an hour for someone to make that joke, thank god you got here when you did.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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this made me laugh at this crisis too
Shemeer NS
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I have just hot swapped external hard disks that hold nightly backup data.
I have done this every day for several years.
I have just been told off.
One is supposed to hit the 'Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media' before doing this.
Meh!
So when one of the elves made a point of telling me, I accepted my telling off for not following the correct procedure, but then showed her the empirical proof that the data was fine.
Question...
Am I right? Does it not really matter?
Or, (Please God No!) Is she right and I am risking data integrity?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Tell her you've been naughty and deserve a spanking.
For flash drives I usually use "eject" ; "safely remove..." is too much work.
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Safely Remove... is just an Icon, click and go.
It is just that the one click required is just too much effort! 
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: is just an Icon
Not to me. I'd have to click the double up-arrow first. Eject works for USB and CDs and DVDs -- one ring to rule them all.
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The reason for that click, is to ensure that any cached data gets flushed to the device before you unplug it. In 99.999% of cases it will not matter, but the day you have some critical item on your system to be saved ...
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Depends on the operating system. I thought you had to do the safe eject bit but was told by our new hardware guy that the newer operating systems (2008) does not need it.
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Depends on the disk. Not pressing that button first means that Windows doesn't know that it shouldn't use the disk, so it could be reading or writing data (particularly if you have an indexing service set up over the drive or something like that). However, it's generally pretty good about not using write-back caching and things like that on external devices. As long as the disk completes the current operation when you pull the plug, and doesn't corrupt it, you should be fine if you aren't mid way through writing a file.
I pull USB sticks out without pressing that icon all the time and I've never had a problem.
However, for a backup that you might really care about if it was broken, you probably should, just in case.
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It is just an automatic, nightly run, back-up, runs once a day at 10.00pm.
Not used at any other time, I just swap out each day in order to have a copy off-site.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Seemingly it can cause surges which can damage the drive or corupt data, this does not occur often but can and does occur.
And you know that a natual law of nature state that it will only do so the day before you actually need the data on that drive
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It should force a flush of the write buffers. They'd flush themselves after a short bit, anyway (or should). I'm usually somewhat cautious when copying large files to slow devices.
Note: I've occasionally had weird results when a device is left in during boot-up but pulled out without a proper release. Not readily reproducible.
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New versions of Windows (don't recall when the change was made) default to disabling write caches for USB drives. This hurts performance; but means that windows won't say a write is done until it's send the last bit over the wires to the drive. The drive itself could still have unwritten data in it's internal caches and be lying about the fact (if there is such data it's almost certainly lying and denying it to buff benchmark scores) but windows can't do anything about that.
IF you want faster performance you can enable write caching on the drive; in that case the safe eject feature is required (to flush the cache).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You have ripped a hole in the Space-Time Continuum by doing this. The Doctor has been doing loop the loops for several years now fixing this mess.
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It depends on how you have configured the caching.
If you have turned off write caching in the OS for the drive, there is nothing going to be still in the buffer waiting to be written when the OS feels like it when you pull it out.
It is on by default.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Or, (Please God No!) Is she right and I am risking data integrity?
Yes.
Two caches here: on-disk cache, and windows write cache. Neither is necessarily flushed when you hot-unplug the disk.
And even if NTFS is maintianing integrity, this does not guarantee integrity of applicaiton level data.
You are "mostly lucky", because while both are lazy, they don't signficantly delay normally.
You can disable these options in the drive's properties, in which case the "safely eject" won't be necessary - and isn#t available anymore:
- Explorer, Drive, properties, "Hadrware" Tab, select your drive again (!) and click "Settings"
- Select "Change Settings" (with elevation icon) of W7 / W8
- Select Policy (? not sure about the english translation)
- Disable "Write cache on device" and select "Fast removal".
As someone said, this is on newer versions the default for removable media. But since the "eject safely" option is available, I'd asusme it's nto set for the drive in question.
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It's just a way to tell you that any pending writes to the disk have completed. I suppose for a backup, you should check it - but if the backup happened overnight and it's now mid-morning it's gonna be OK.
Then again, if it's a raid array you can hot-swap anytime - even during a write
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