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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Frisky SKeleton on January 20, 2010, 01:38:34 am
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do you utilise the mystic remove hardware safely button or play russian roulette with your system?
there's nothing more satisfying than safely removing your external harddrive to drop it seconds later. i thought it was safe!!
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the only time i really bother is on my macbook because it'll sometimes act really weird if you don't. i usually don't bother on my desktop unless it's with my external hdd because if something fucked up with that i'd lose a WHOLE lot of shit
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I only do it when I put my flash drives into my friends macs. Usually when I don't safely remove it on there it brings up an error and my friends think I broke their computers. Therefore, in order to prevent the confusion, I safely remove it.
But in normal circumstances I do not.
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It took me a minute to figure out what you were even talking about.
No, I don't even consider it! Tbh I didn't even really think what it was, I just kind of pushed it aside as a part of WINDOWS SPAM.
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Yeah I always do, I'm just conscious of losing files, which is one thing I hate doing.
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Yeah never on Windows and always on Mac - for reasons previously stated. If you know what you're doing you never have to "safely" remove a disk. Just don't pull your disk out while it's reading/writing (especially writing).
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For some reason the Mac either horribly complains when you don't or it doesn't realize that you even did it and then it won't let you eject it and will sometimes either freeze up or fuck up your finder to where you have to restart anyway. This is one of my only big issues with the Mac, it's pretty annoying.
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For some reason the Mac either horribly complains when you don't or it doesn't realize that you even did it and then it won't let you eject it and will sometimes either freeze up or fuck up your finder to where you have to restart anyway. This is one of my only big issues with the Mac, it's pretty annoying.
really? i've never had this problem ever on my mac. I move about my laptop a fair bit and i've never had a problem ejecting my external hard drive while doing so. It's true though that finder can sometimes be a bitch about things like this though, (eg: it won't let you eject something for absolutely no reason. I've just went ahead and pulled the hard drive in these situations and while it has complained about it, finder hasn't ever locked up on me or anything as a result of the little window popping up saying "WHY'D YOU DO THAT")
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really? i've never had this problem ever on my mac. I move about my laptop a fair bit and i've never had a problem ejecting my external hard drive while doing so. It's true though that finder can sometimes be a bitch about things like this though, (eg: it won't let you eject something for absolutely no reason. I've just went ahead and pulled the hard drive in these situations and while it has complained about it, finder hasn't ever locked up on me or anything as a result of the little window popping up saying "WHY'D YOU DO THAT")
See, sometimes mine doesn't complain at all aside from the popup box. But, I've had enough times where it has fucked up and forced a restart to where I don't want to bother with it.
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okay yeah. At the most sometimes I'll get the beachball spin for a few seconds, but then its back to the normal. i've never had to restart as a result of removing any hardware. what sort of hardware are you removing (eg is it in an older piece of hardware? my brother had trouble with his mac on a really old external hard drive enclosure where it would sometimes give him a kernel panic when he would unplug it, although that is most likely a different issue entirely)
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It's usually either a flash drive or an SD card reader when I have these problems.
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my flash drive sometimes won't eject but its never locked up. never tried using an SD card reader.
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depends on where I'm at. At home on my own computer, yes. If I'm using a thumbdrive at the library or some other public computer and am busy I don't bother.
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Occasionally I don't bother (on my out of date version of Mac OS X the mechanism sometimes glitches) but most of the time, yes. Even though I'm pretty sure it won't matter at all on most hardware. The prospect of a partition being blown up by detaching it while it is being written to sounds like something ancient to me and I'm not sure how relevant it is today.
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I almost always do. Well, SD cards, yes flash drives, not always, but usually.
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The issue is that Win XP, possibly other OSes, are set to enable write caching by default. Try googling "disable write caching" and set it to not use it, and you'll never have to worry about doing it again.
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The reason i voted no is while i try to safely remove my hardware it says your hardware is used by other program. so i turn my pc to stand by mode and remove it.
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For lasting a PC everyone should try to safely remove their hardware.
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ahahahaha goddamn
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I always remove my hardware safely. Removing hardware without safely removing, your storage data can be corrupted. By the way sometimes it displays generic volume cannot be stopped right now then I gotta remove without safely removing it.
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Well Me and my bro put together my computer without any static guards other then being vary careful not to touch the inside of the mother board and processor.... But the cpu fan was a bitch to get on I think we gently forced it on after we played with that stocked cpu fan for about 30 min. for some reason the thing wasn't latching on right.one side want on and the other was giving us bull shit. BTW just got it done about 3 days ago.
for those that don't know here is my parts I used for it.
Case: COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Black Steel + Plastic and Mesh Bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119197&Tpk=11-119-197)
Mother board:GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3 AM3 AMD 790X SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128438&Tpk=13-128-438)
Video Card:XFX HD-489X-ZSFC Radeon HD 4890 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150438&Tpk=14-150-438)
Processor:AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 140W Quad-Core Processor (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103692&Tpk=19-103-692)
Ram:OCZ Gold 6GB (3 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Low Voltage Desktop Memory Model OCZ3G1600LV6GK (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227365&Tpk=20-227-365)
Harddrive: HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 IDK/7K (0S00164) 2TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145276&Tpk=22-145-276)
PSU: COOLER MASTER Real Power Pro RS-C50-EMBA-D2 1250W ATX Form Factor 12V V2.3 / SSI standard EPS 12V V2.92 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171029&Tpk=17-171-029)
thermal paste: COOLER MASTER RG-TF4-TGU1-GP ThermalFusion 400 Thermal Compound (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103059&Tpk=35-103-059)
DVD RW: LITE-ON Black 24X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 24X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2MB Cache SATA 24X DVD Writer (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106334&Tpk=27-106-334)
Other Thoughts: The mother board is good and all but If I knew there was a better mother board made by the same company for about 20$ more I would of got that since it had 2 16X video card slots and I believe it also Supported 6 core ready same as the board I have now(but on a good note this had the better on board sound if that's a pulse). I'm also thinking about replacing the stock CPU fan. on another note I Barely got everything in there... Next time I need to get a bigger case. Also I'm using Illegal version of windows 7 (but I may get the real when I get the extra cash to do so.) all I need now is to get it on-line since my mom took my ether-net cable out and put it in her room.
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what does this have to do with anything
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what does this have to do with anything
Well we handled all the Parts/Hardware unsafely well not as safe as it should of been but it all worked out. Also I'm online now.
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what the fuck
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ahahaha what
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dday was outdone by spambots
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dday was outdone by spambots
But what I put wasn't spam :fogetcry: it was all my parts I used just in case if any one wanted to look at my specs. witch it's all take you to newegg lol and the part I used.
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Well I don't know about this topic but I just made a sandwich it had:
Cucumber: http://cukes.info/
Lettuce: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/lethal-lettuce-pulled-off-shelves-again-1967711.html
Left over pork: http://cookingfortwo.about.com/od/menuplanning/tp/Mostofpork.htm
Mayonaisse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-swlx9z2O0
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Holy shit cukes.info is a real site I thought you were making it up. Even if it's not what you're advertising *_*
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When I was done eating my sandwich I safely removed my bib and dentures.
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When I was done eating my sandwich I safely removed my bib and dentures.
Good jorb!
Now lets get to the fun stuff like trowing hard drives to the ground.