So basically he's saying "Eject before you pull out". Got it.

@TheWonderfulWino

4 жыл бұрын

PHRASING!!!

@hillbobaggins

4 жыл бұрын

Wait...

@cinnamonsquash

4 жыл бұрын

Wot?!

@monkeyballs188

4 жыл бұрын

doesent that make the pullout method obsolete?

@stan.rarick8556

4 жыл бұрын

Snicker, snicker,

Once I was saving an almost-finished school paper to my USB and my bro yanked it out cause he needed it for something. -I now have one less brother.- I use Google Drive now.

@karthikeyanswaminathan2380

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@218orangefelines

4 жыл бұрын

r/corpsesbeingbros

@bened22

4 жыл бұрын

Never use an external drive as your only backup of an important document.

@werwerqweqwe

4 жыл бұрын

Thank god you still had the document on your computer, huh? Would've sucked to have to rewrite the entire paper.

@drabberfrog

3 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't the paper still be on the system's RAM? And then you could just save it to another drive?

Me: Closes all Programms adn windows and Clicks on Eject Windows: Can't Eject, because a Programm is using this Drive.

@aceinyoface96

4 жыл бұрын

Same problem, honestly i just say screw it and turn my computer off then unplug it. I only use my external hard drive for extra video games so unless i'm playing them i don't need it to be plugged in

@linkthehero8431

4 жыл бұрын

@@aceinyoface96 I use my main drive for games and a Seagate backup drive for HD movies. After I buy a movie on Blu-Ray or through Vudu, I like to have have a torrented copy that I can play on my Android or Blu-Ray player through the USB drive. I copy a movie or two to my micro SD card at a time to watch on the bus or something so I don't have to worry about buying a separate device. Vudu works just fine with Android, but for Blu-ray discs that don't have that option, it's my preferred method.

@yootz

4 жыл бұрын

i usually just force eject it on file explorer when that happens

@smitajky

4 жыл бұрын

This is a common problem. The files have all been closed but windows doesn't know it. So it is being conservative. The problem comes from the delayed write capability where something is stored in memory and later written to the USB. Windows can ASK the USB to store the file. Unless it gets acknowledgment how can it know if its request has been honoured?

@hsssddjhdddyg1648

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe a virus

Whenever i take my USB out or put it in my Computer, i changed the system noise to Mario Screaming. I don't regret it.

@flamo3961

4 жыл бұрын

That's amazing. May i also recommend that the Wilhelm scream as another great alternative?

@josiahferrell5022

4 жыл бұрын

I might steal that idea.

@radughita1992

4 жыл бұрын

What setting, I always wanted to do this.

@CP1871

4 жыл бұрын

I love that idea and will do the same shortly

@oyerkproto

4 жыл бұрын

TELL ME HOW TO DO THAT

Remember kids, when a yes or no answer is being asked always replay with "probably" to avoid that 1% chance of shit happens.

@marcoseduardocastro781

5 жыл бұрын

I do that always has worked since

@charlieoconnor40

5 жыл бұрын

here in america, we just pull out.

@56independent42

4 жыл бұрын

ok, probably my guess who character has white hair

@dunkeykung1162

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

@lokowda

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and No

A highschool teacher of mine freaked out on me because I didn't eject my USB and a warning message popped up. She thought I'd just destroyed the classroom's iMac.

@Funny9689

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@sharlsherif5710

6 жыл бұрын

when you press "shift" button continueosly you get a popup telling you can activate disabled people mode. it happened in school and they thought i "LET" a virus come in (there was no internet).

@R3dp055um

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, well, when students know more about computers than their teachers, these things can happen...

@sharlsherif5710

6 жыл бұрын

students doesnt know more. Teachers are the ones who has no clue what is going on. Theyre just there for the salary lol.

@CKTDanny

6 жыл бұрын

R3dp055um It's not their lack of knowledge that bothers me, but their inability to accept the fact that the student might be correct and to learn and move forward.

But many USB drives will keep their light on solid after you say "Eject" and the computer has said "It is now safe to eject your drive!"

@mikefellhauer3350

3 жыл бұрын

@@mysticlyweird6474 But then wouldn't it always be SOLID, it wouldn't flash at all if the light was wired to power???

@vampirethespiderbatgod9740

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikefellhauer3350 no

@zer0pointnothing

3 жыл бұрын

That light might be a power light ejecting makes sure no programs are currently writing or reading from that flash drive so you can pull it out without interrupting anything

@autumnleaf2976

3 жыл бұрын

I thought this comment was meant as a joke. Looks like it's not, in that case, what do you do with those _no light_ usbs? Obviously eject from the system first and when the system says it's ok, physically pull it out

@zeenxdownzshorts5641

3 жыл бұрын

Big brain but my USB doesn't have a light

For Linux users: the 'sync' command can resolve write chaching directly

@AlexeiDimitri

3 жыл бұрын

Or even a simple dismount command 😜

@haseenabadshah5381

3 жыл бұрын

caching*

@RobBCactive

3 жыл бұрын

Last time I looked the modern equivalent of the update daemon to flush dirty buffer cache pages still operates every 10s, so the traditional sh -c "sync; sync" wouldn't really help. What if your USB is erasing pages, wear levelling or re-writing them? Don't you think telling it to go offline anticipating power loss is safer?

@cobalt2489

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobBCactive it's safer but to just resolve write caching e.g. on a network drive or a USB 'sync' will do the job. Though to just take it 'offline' etc. is still better for USB.

Dang Linus. I was hoping you would say premature ejecting is totally ok and we can now yank our parts at will and take back our lives.

@WhyteLis21

6 жыл бұрын

Gavin Seim can I eject safely from this video? or is it to premature and I might become corrupt by this video? 😁

@StarryNightGazing

6 жыл бұрын

Premature ejecting could be embarassing. Anyway if you yank your parts before the act you may actually last longer. You welcome.

@WhyteLis21

6 жыл бұрын

Stargazer 😆😆😆👍 I myself always leave it in and eject a few hours later! 😁

@legume7469

6 жыл бұрын

Heh

@danielkundaijacha8933

6 жыл бұрын

Gavin Seim premature ejectulating😂😂😂😂😂

Can't help it, I'm a premature ejectulator.

@accelrailgun5065

6 жыл бұрын

Read as ejaculator xD fuq my life ;-;

@qazwiz

6 жыл бұрын

aw come-on folks, we don't need the joke explained... just like and move on.

@chrisb.9083

6 жыл бұрын

Not premature, ain't got no Time to wait

@mikeums

6 жыл бұрын

lol

@zaidabraham7310

6 жыл бұрын

Victor Vallim That's the point of the joke...

1:18 It funny until I heard the word "True story happened to a friend of mine"...

@acmenipponair

4 жыл бұрын

I just wonder, why this friend hasn't had ANY copy of his thesis on any other device? I saved my master thesis during writing on two external hard drives, one USB drive and the internal drive, as well as I had it uploaded into Google Drive ;)

@Network126

3 жыл бұрын

This guy builds expensive computers.. I wonder if he let his friend go homeless or helped him out?

@wta1518

3 жыл бұрын

I would have saved mine on my USB flash drive, my USB SATA SSD, my C: drive, and OneDrive.

@verycasul

3 жыл бұрын

@@acmenipponair i think that happened years ago in Linus's life. Back then backing up files like that wasn't a norm.

Summary: Yes you do, if you don't data might get corrupt

@j.a.weishaupt1748

4 жыл бұрын

Fawazlol That’s too quick for a tech quickie

@devonteplayzgames2934

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks. You just saved me 5 mins

@craurd

4 жыл бұрын

it might

@puerlatinophilus3037

4 жыл бұрын

So it becomes a politician?

@glass7923

4 жыл бұрын

congratulations on misinformation

I hate it when my PC tells me *your drive can not be ejected at the moment*

@sciencevids1101

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly, it's like "bitch I already waited for you? You getting the fuck out bro!" *yank*

@pwnmeisterage

6 жыл бұрын

The real cause of that message is usually not the PC, it's the WinOS running on it.

@huyquang-ng7yc

6 жыл бұрын

how to force windows to eject the usb drive or usb hdd when the os say some @sshole program still working on it without shutdown the computer?

@freusin

6 жыл бұрын

close every windows. that might do the trick

@ZekeGraal

6 жыл бұрын

I hate this about Windows. Ejecting on Linux is more forceful than Windows, and I rarely have it tell me that it is unable to eject.

I for one am extremely disappointed that the 'elect' button doesn't spit the USB out half way across the room.

@karenthesis5074

6 жыл бұрын

fcukugimmeausername like a toaster?

@fcukugimmeausername

6 жыл бұрын

Solder Heart yes, but stronger and horizontal.

@dcfuksurmom

6 жыл бұрын

same. but that mechanism would take up alot of space. would be cool in a desktop maybe

@LegoWormNoah101

6 жыл бұрын

Substitute elect for eject

@fcukugimmeausername

6 жыл бұрын

2 months and I didn't even realise. Lol.

"True story, happened to a friend of mine" Can confirm, I was that friend.

@jaymercha3859

3 жыл бұрын

You too....Lets get him.

@thatguyinelnorte

3 жыл бұрын

Tim Horton's?

@tterygoney6521

2 жыл бұрын

can confirm I was the walls

my dad is the most tech savvy person in my family so, of course, when he finished modding my 2ds sd card and i finished editing my acnl save, he ejected and waited for the "safe to remove" prompt before removing the sd card and inserting it back into my 2ds (my 2ds is pretty much my life now so of course we didn't want to run the risk of data corruption even though my dad did create a folder on his desktop and copy-pasted everything on the sd card into it)

@onneb

2 жыл бұрын

My sister has a modded 2ds too and i got a modded new 2ds xl

@dx243_

10 ай бұрын

I got a modded 3dsxl

Think of not ejecting your USB drive as not closing a book when you put it on the bookshelf. You can do it a few time and the book is still readable, but if you shove an open book into a bookshelf enough times, you'll start tearing pages up, making it unreadable.

@livc.6761

5 жыл бұрын

Interesting metaphor, but makes sense!

@domino52o26

5 жыл бұрын

Really good analogy. I've always ejectulated first but good shit.

@ZyliceLiddell

5 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@UndertakerU2ber

5 жыл бұрын

Well then I'll just get some tape and stick the torn pages back together. That will make it readable again.

@ailurophile4341

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on analogy. Did you steal this from someone else?

Valuable Life Advice: Don't drink and drive. Don't throw rocks at bears. Eject your freaking USB drive.

@BertGrink

6 жыл бұрын

Here's another one for the list: Don't throw shit at an armed man. (Niven's 1st law) [Corrollary: Don't stand next to someone who's throwing shit at an armed man.]

@Rimpala

6 жыл бұрын

Don't stand next to an armed man who's getting shit thrown at him (you don't want any of it to splash on you after all)

@marcjustmarc6990

6 жыл бұрын

I throw bears at rocks

I've been lucky that I've never had files destroyed or lost by not ejecting first, but now I know, I'm definitely taking the time to eject. Thank you for educating me!

@stephensnell5707

7 ай бұрын

Well you SHOULD ALWAYS EJECT your USB Flash Drive first before removing it

True story, shortly after I started working at an MSP my boss cackled when I asked if he was going to use the eject function before disconnecting a USB hard drive. That hard drive literally lost its partition table.

I learned the hard way in middle school about just pulling out a USB drive and had it corrupted. When I was in high school, before we got Google Docs that multiple people could edit on, we would get together in groups with multiple people with several laptops and one USB that we would have on Word doc on, edit it with our part, and pass it on to the next person. In my group we had to use my personal USB drive and I was mortified. I made my classmates eject my drive every time before pulling it out and they would get all huffy and annoyed and say it didn't matter. The only way I got them to listen was to tell them that I was using my personal drive and that whomever messed it up would have to buy me a new one and that we would lose our project and have to start again.

If it's so easy to corrupt data, why dont' computers have an actual "eject" button to press first?

@frozenlicks

6 жыл бұрын

it has...its called "shutdown" button. There's a difference between hard drives and flash drives. Hard drive is basically a disk, which cant be corrupt easily and flash drives data are stored in a chip which can be at risk on corrupting your data.

@zachariahalwan5830

6 жыл бұрын

Larry Bundy Jr y

@WestCoastPicks

6 жыл бұрын

The real answer is it's not. As long as you've completed your write cycle, just pull the bitch out. Anyone who thinks you need to eject a usb drive before you remove it doesn't have a clue how they work.

@WestCoastPicks

6 жыл бұрын

Steven Mactavish I'm positive that's not why it happened. Think about how many devices don't even have an eject option. Data has been getting corrupted long before SD cards and USB ports. Sometimes factory defects, sometimes user error, sometimes even poor data management by the OS. Reguardless, if you are not currently writing data to the device there is nothing unplugging it can possibly do to it.

@ThunderDraws

6 жыл бұрын

also you never know if some program isn't accessing your USB drive for some reason WHILE you pull it out ... things like that can happen. (especially with newer software that likes to scan drives to import new photos, and so on)

Always eject sd cards first. I've corrupted way to many cards in photography, luckily it was just my personal ones.

@squidblaster3327

4 жыл бұрын

you misspelt pornography

@natend741

4 жыл бұрын

@@squidblaster3327 how do I delete someone else comment

@wta1518

3 жыл бұрын

@@natend741 you report it and hope that whatever black hole that leads to ends up doing something.

@zerrocool809

3 жыл бұрын

I have never ejected a drive and even plugged out an ssd with my OS on it so yeah I won’t do that

@idg33

3 жыл бұрын

@@squidblaster3327 oh hush

*accidentally bumps thumb drive* Haha, I'm in danger.

Someone calculate please what amount of time an average person spends ejecting usb drives in their lifetime

@coar

6 жыл бұрын

2 hours per 10 years, assuming 2 seconds and ejecting it once a day

@Bubbauk88

6 жыл бұрын

I lost a file 15 years ago and had to get up and walk 10 steps back to the other computer to copy it onto the drive again, that is 5 minutes of my life I will never get back, you cannot put a price on that, I always make sure to eject my USB flash drives.

@schleybailey

6 жыл бұрын

Bubbauk88 lmfao

@InstaSim6

6 жыл бұрын

So let's assume that the general user ejects a USB drive from their PC at least 2 or 3 times per day, so that's 6 seconds per day (this will then factor in days where the USB drive is not used I would think). Now there's 7 days per week so that makes it 42 seconds of ejecting per week, and 52 weeks in a year bringing us to a total of 2184 seconds per year (or 36 minutes and 24 seconds). Let's assume that the average user starts using USB drives at around age 5 and the typical life expectancy is around 75-80 (could be higher but I'm making assumptions). So that's about 70-75 years of using USB drives, at 2184 seconds per year of ejecting, the average time spent in a lifetime ejecting USB drives amounts to about 152880 - 163800 seconds. That's roughly between 1day 18hours 28minutes and 1day 21hours 30minutes. So, when you think about it, you waste almost 2 days of your entire life ejecting USB drives 😂😂

@somedude2492

6 жыл бұрын

Bubbauk88 same happened to me. Never again. Say no to premature ejecting.

i always try to eject and Windows then usually says no. so i go to task manager and restart Explorer, which sometimes frees the drive from Windows' clutches. if it still refuses to let it go i just disconnect the drive anyway because goddammit Windows, at least fucking tell me what you're doing with the drive that's so important

@khx73

6 жыл бұрын

^^^ This for sure.

@Macantor13

6 жыл бұрын

Valfaun If you eject the USB in Explorer then it works better than using the system tray icon. I find that I have to click eject twice if I use the system tray, but it works instantly in Explorer.

@MajoraZ

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly this. I have a portable hard drive, and even software like USB safely remove I can't get windows to let me safely eject it.

@jlcfreitas

6 жыл бұрын

totally this

@ej_tech

6 жыл бұрын

I just keep an eye on the activity light on the external drive. If it stops blinking, I pull it out even of Windows says otherwise.

I completely forgot that was even a thing you could do.

when you watch linus' video with linus' ads... perfection

People might say that "life is too short to eject USB drives" but my *porn* collection is too valuable to take that chance.

@Fankas2000

5 жыл бұрын

So your porn collection is only 4-32 GB? Wow thats really small.

@caseybear910fe

5 жыл бұрын

@@Fankas2000 where did you get 4-32??

@Fankas2000

5 жыл бұрын

@@caseybear910fe Thats the size of most USB drives.

@MichaelWarne

5 жыл бұрын

Fankas2000 64 & 128 are very cheap nowadays

@Fankas2000

5 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelWarne Which part of "most" did you not get? Plus if you are going in to th 128 GB territory then you might as well just buy an external hard drive.

I always eject it because I don't want to risk losing my porn

@flameshana9

5 жыл бұрын

_Preciooouuuusss_

@intentionaloffside8934

5 жыл бұрын

You’re confusing this with pulling out too late!

@Ieu6054

4 жыл бұрын

Ew

@Nero_PR

4 жыл бұрын

Are you Randy Pitchford?

@fr34k09

4 жыл бұрын

@nersoparanaense I know that joke XD

"Try closing you're eyes, and picture a cd tray sliding out, for a little bit of computing nostalgia" me with a modern pc with a cd drive...

@RealHankShill

3 жыл бұрын

youse dat cd dryve to learnt spalling

@haseenabadshah5381

3 жыл бұрын

your*

@rixy560

3 жыл бұрын

@@haseenabadshah5381 you dumbass its you're get good at english dum dum

@yehoshuas.6917

3 жыл бұрын

@@rixy560 This is a ridiculous thread, but I guess I’m adding to it. your = possessive: "your eyes” = the eyes you have you’re = you are: “you’re eyes” = you are eyes It’s your eyes. Not you are eyes.

@rixy560

3 жыл бұрын

@@yehoshuas.6917 ahhaah okay sorry im so bad at english xd

Why does he look like Linus tech tips

@watema3381

4 жыл бұрын

he sounds like him too... doppelganger?

@Adde-hy7wx

4 жыл бұрын

A lot of KZreadrs are about his age? But I agree.

@rajeevranjan564

4 жыл бұрын

Because he is....

@BentonMarshall

4 жыл бұрын

Probably his dad

@t3chn070

4 жыл бұрын

Cuz hes LTT Linus tech tips doppelganger.

Always do it. I always ejected my drives, until one day, my computer was being stupid, and I pulled it out without ejecting it. That was the only time I had done that, and that one time I _did_ do it, it corrupted my entire flash drive with like 7 years worth of stuff, and made it completely unusable. I was told to use some programme to recover scraps of files, but that just returned corrupted versions of the files, and even after formatting the drive, it was still completely unusable. I did it ONCE. And that one time I did it, it corrupted everything. So never think, "oh, it'll be fine just this once.".

@Chris_Cross

5 жыл бұрын

@Frank Winkhorst, yeah, luckily, I had done a backup about a month earlier, but I still lost everything I had done in that month. I now do it once a week, or after I do anything really important.

@Galllam01

5 жыл бұрын

Why do you store your files on flash drives, tho? I mean, it is even safer on hard drives or cloud storage

@halloumi420

3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a PSA for why drugs are bad ☠️

@encycl07pedia-

3 жыл бұрын

The worst time to do it is when your computer "is being stupid." If your computer is saying "You can't eject this. It's still in use.", you *really* can't just take it out.

"prehistoric 1990s"....... Ouch.

@mecca777

5 жыл бұрын

in tech years....prehistoric

@cannonnichols7329

5 жыл бұрын

hey its not my fault i'm stuck on this old 90s potato

@cannonnichols7329

5 жыл бұрын

nfs iii ftw

@edshuey

4 жыл бұрын

Philippe cf

@j2323j

4 жыл бұрын

It hurt 😞

1:49 I'm not epileptic, but a warning for the flashing lights would be very kind to those who are

@MrViki60

4 жыл бұрын

Lol no

@oniruddhoalam2039

4 жыл бұрын

69 the Liker here

@DM-qm5sc

3 жыл бұрын

Get over it and if you watch videos while having this you deserve it. Just god telling you to keep your eyes shut.

@kirathekillernote2173

3 жыл бұрын

Let someone with this defect comment before you go on a holy crusade. While I am all up for accessibility, there is definitely a upper limit we are reaching with these sort of arguments. We can't realistically accomodate for every physical handicap or political opinion in our daily lives neither should we have to. It is upto epileptic person to lower their brightness or some other solution.

video title: do you really need to eject usb drives? let me save you 5 and a half minutes: yes you SHOULD do it. there you go.

I tried to click the subscribe button twice but it says "unsubscribe".

@OdgeBodge

5 жыл бұрын

ok

@TheUltimateYouTuberyay

5 жыл бұрын

Use an alt account

@marcoyang4389

5 жыл бұрын

i think its cuz you broke your computer by not ejecting the usb drive properly

@IERServer

5 жыл бұрын

That's how dumb the topic of this video is, right?

@stephensnell1379

5 жыл бұрын

If the unsubscribe appeared it means you are already subscribed.

1:05 is the reason I now always eject my flash drives.

You guys are so helpful. I'm currently studying for my A+ exam and every time I have some stupid question ab a specific topic, you have a video about it. Thankyou all so much for such great content

0:43 "physically ejected CD ROMs" ROM is the key point, meaning Read Only Memory, yeah? With Flash Drives you can read *and* write.

@encycl07pedia-

3 жыл бұрын

They're not ROMs, but CD-RWs could be written to, as well. What a terrible and pointless technology they were.

@wta1518

3 жыл бұрын

@@encycl07pedia- Linus specifically said "CD-ROM"

I pulled my 8gb USB out of my chromebook without an eject, instantly removed all of the data on there... Don't do it on Chrome OS

@gfrewqpoiu

6 жыл бұрын

Chrome OS is based on Linux

@dylanharding5720

6 жыл бұрын

gfrewqpoiu yeah, but different Linux distros run differently. There are some that will only have it mount whenever it's actually needed, there are some that will constantly use it, and risk corruption if it's removed.

@bendibell

6 жыл бұрын

Not really. The IO scheduler is the same between distros because they all use the same kernel.

@dylanharding5720

6 жыл бұрын

Subsentient I've used multiple distros, I'm well aware they use the same kernel but they do different things sometimes.

@bendibell

6 жыл бұрын

I guess some DEs might do things differently, but I haven't seen it on GNOME, MATE, KDE, XFCE or Enlightenment.

Yep, I lost 50gb of porn by doing this... won't ever do that again

@quill444

6 жыл бұрын

chris p That'll teach anyone not to just yank it! 🍆

@nPhlames

6 жыл бұрын

Never pull out.

@accelrailgun5065

6 жыл бұрын

XD

@novastar3990

6 жыл бұрын

Good.

@freusin

6 жыл бұрын

i bet that p0rn was good

Computer : "you pulled out right?" Usb drive : "yeah"

"Living in a box behind Tim Hortons" Yes, Linus is Canadian alright

Always flush your buffers kids

Never ejected any USB drive and never had problems so far, I'll keep being lazy and crossing my finger, not like I put important data on them anyway

@shiroyasha7324

6 жыл бұрын

Kurgo yup same XD

@RockDavid

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly, as long as you didn't JUST hit save or load something off of it your fine to do so. The video wasn't to bad, but also been proven many other places. USB drives idle when not used, they don't keep passing information so just popping it out really doesn't do much. Your teacher, ha ha i'd be "THAT GUY' that would just randomly do it for shits to fuck with them

@lukababilodze4283

6 жыл бұрын

Isn’t hentai important?

@artvandelay5

6 жыл бұрын

DonutEater is right, eject your usb drives m8

@Ganjaz

6 жыл бұрын

once broke a usb stick, wasnt able to remount an image on the raw space :D

Oh, I never knew you’re supposed to eject it. Thanks.

The cdrom eject is a better example than you think. In my years working on personal computers I came across plenty of drives that when you hit "eject" would spit out the tray with the disk still spinning. Scratched the crap out of more than a few discs. Once it spit the tray out just right with the disc still spinning that it flew across the room from the tray. Reminded me of one of the demon friends of PinHead.

I've bricked a USB flash drive and an SD card by not ejecting.

@aesir4134

5 жыл бұрын

Me either

@dmand2353

5 жыл бұрын

Same here!

@calvintuano557

4 жыл бұрын

i guess you guys learned your lessons ? lol

@-Name-here-

4 жыл бұрын

@Adkatka really? No crap. Not like he said that or anything

@overrated3237

4 жыл бұрын

Destroyed my 128 GB pro DSLR SD card by yanking it out of my pc. I had no clue Microsoft decided to start moving stuff and now it isn’t even recognised by my pc and my camera says it’s unreadable :(

I've had a project that's corrupted because I took my USB drive pulled out, mid-saving... started over, got traumatized, learned my lesson...

@AndyTrampke

6 жыл бұрын

DANDAN THE DANDAN This is why you copy files rather than just moving them

@dandanthedandan7558

6 жыл бұрын

AndyTom At that time, I didn't know what was the best choice... I had the file in my USB and not in the computer...

@AndyTrampke

6 жыл бұрын

DANDAN THE DANDAN Ah gotya. Man I just hate losing important data. That must've been a real bitch

@dandanthedandan7558

6 жыл бұрын

AndyTom It was a coding class and I lost the game I was working on. Luckily it was just a simple game since back then I didn't know anything complex. The good thing was that we were already working on another game just for fun and decide to use that game for the project instead.

@tskjesusfreak

6 жыл бұрын

This was why I used Google Docs when I was in College.

Yup I often had the same question in my mind. I often also experienced the same corruption problem at the same time. Nowadays I eject first then I remove it. Linus thanks for the video.👍

I think it's gotten much better. I remember I had a digital camera in the early 00's and removing it without ejecting destroyed all of my photos. I've never had any issues since, although if it's anywhere near important data, I'll always hit eject before removing.

Well, physically ejecting CD is the same as ejecting USB drive. The tray doesn't open on you still spinning LOL

@MobileRecordingsRo

6 жыл бұрын

Do you remember in windows XP and vista, when you removed the CD while running something from it, the persistent error window named NO DISK "Ignore" "Retry" "Cancel" when you had to click few hudred times to make it gone ?

@zanpekosak2383

5 жыл бұрын

@@MobileRecordingsRo Oh yeah! Retro all the way. The coolest in WinXP was the puppy giving you instructions.

@zanpekosak2383

5 жыл бұрын

@N 4 fking sure!

0:34 I’m sorry, but did you just try to plug a USB into a Mac!

@RushilKasetty

6 жыл бұрын

Uh, what do you mean? Most Macs have USB ports. The only one that doesn't is the new MacBook.

@B-rad1

6 жыл бұрын

I'm more disturbed by the location. Were they plugging it into the battery? The USB port is in the top right on that model.

@katrinarose2210

6 жыл бұрын

@Rushil Kasetty you're missing the point, this was meant to make fun of the fact that Apple has decided to strip as many ports as possible from all of their tech, even iPhone. Usb is getting more and more scarce, which is kind of scary considering the vast majority of people use the standard usb layout, whether it be usb 1 2 or 3. Not many people have usb c removable drives yet, and it's kind of a pain to go out and by a whole dongle just to plug in a usb stick. On paper it looks desireable because the design is slim light and sleek, but in practice, it's more of a hassle than it's really worth, but Apple isn't really listening to the general public. Otherwise they'd add a usb 3.1 port to the MacBook, and a headphone jack to the iPhone.

@RushilKasetty

6 жыл бұрын

Kenneth Fleming yes I agree, but his comment didn't seem to be a joke to me. I guess sorry if it was though.

@TheDyingScotsman

6 жыл бұрын

Apple products are awful. Check out Louis Rossmann group if you don;t know why

Typing a research paper for my Physician Assistant program my computer died and upon turning back on the blue screen of death came up. After rebooting my entire 11 page masterpiece was gone! Crying I called my professor at 12 am and she basically said, “sucks to suck, can’t prove you’re not lying”. ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS SAVE THINGS PROPERLY AFTER EACH PARAGRAPH!!!

The only time I forgot to go through the eject process before removing my external hard drive, sure enough I lost everything on the external drive. Luckily I still had it all on my computer but I hope to never forget that again!

@Venomous_Network

2 жыл бұрын

Pro tip: you can use EasyUS data recovery to recover any info from corrupted or even raw partition of any drive

Living on the edge is hard. Corrupted data is the cost we pay for living on the fast lane!

@KevinBenecke

5 жыл бұрын

That's probably what happened to all of those loser democrats and liberals. They all pulled out without ejecting. Now they are all stupid.

@monday6740

4 жыл бұрын

You never see anybody eject an USB in a Hollywood movie, just before they copy the files from the CIA server & save the world.

In the UNIX paradigm (Android, ChromeOS, Linux, MacOSX etc.), removing storage unceremoniously leaves a "dirty bit" set, so the next time you mount it, it will fsck before mounting. That's not necessarily a Bad Thing. I check filesystem integrity by default just to be safe. Usually when the light for the device stops flashing, the cache has been flushed and you're safe. In Linux you can simply issue a `sync' command or literally `eject /dev/thatdrive' and these can be included into a script to make things drop-dead simple.

@NoorquackerInd

6 жыл бұрын

HEY YA BOI GENTOO USER HERE that is also a big show off because I use Gentoo Do you really need to do sync before umount? Will umount not automatically do what sync does? If it doesn't, it's time for a dang pull request

@ej_tech

6 жыл бұрын

I just right-click the icon of my removable drive and click Eject Volume (Linux Mint)

@Julianacan

6 жыл бұрын

tfw i make a comment explaining basically what you said, then scrolls down in the comments to see this...

@GR3YS0RG4N1CS

6 жыл бұрын

potato potato potato potato potato potato potato lmfaooo another computer idiot thinking windoze is the best OS 😂😂😂😂👌👍

@spykezspykez7001

6 жыл бұрын

@Noorquacker umount calls sync. Now remember if you’re using the USB as a block device, i.e. writing a bootable live USB, you usually need the file system on it unmounted, so there’s nothing to umount. You then have to sync it.

4:11 Why imagine when I already have a dvd drive built into one of my laptops?

Dude, I am very thankful KZread algorithm brought me to this video. Recently, I had problems with corrupted files on my flash drives. I realized I have this habit of not properly ejecting flash drives. Now, the memories of my lost data are haunting me for that stupidity.

Yes, definitely always eject even if write caching is off. You never know what the OS is currently doing. I wish the OS developers across the board would introduce an "Ok to eject?" option though. I've often experienced that the "You can now eject the USB drive" is being suppressed because of something else that just happened at the same time so I never actually got to see it. And sometimes it takes a long time for it to pop up due to much data having been cached which makes you uncertain since there's no progress bar anywhere. So a more obvious way to show whether a drive is ready for un-plugging that could be clicked would be a bit help. In general it's just really badly designed as it is right now, on all platforms.

@joemann7971

5 жыл бұрын

That's not a bad idea. Some thumdrives already have color LEDs. Why cant they just make it to where it's lit up read, it means "Dont remove" and green means it's OK to eject. Most of the time, I just see the stupid LED blinking.... which is hardly useful other than knowing that the computer is reading or writing to the drive.

@deletedelete2016

5 жыл бұрын

Word! I was wondering Linus to tell us what should we do if the system doesn't allow you to eject the device properly because whatever the fuck is still writing or doing but I'm not currently opening files or making use of it under any program, not alternative but just pull it out when that happens.

@eyesup4156

5 жыл бұрын

Or you have a shit PC. I've never encountered a problem where the eject message never popped up

Write caching more than doubled my external hard drive performance, it used to be limited to 30mb/s despite being connected through usb 3, then afterwards it goes upto 100mb/s. Which helps when i do many TBs worth of transfers between drives.

@flameshana9

5 жыл бұрын

That...doesn't sound right.

That feeling, when you hear eject in this context for the first time in your live XD

"Das Leben ist zu kurz um Hardware sicher zu entfernen."

I never used to eject, for years, but one time I lost an irreplaceable file, so now I eject when dealing with important data.

U got weird friends linus

@captainrobots1

6 жыл бұрын

Big Smoke he's one of them

This is why I always buy usb drives with activity lights! Especially when using them in non-pc devices like Western Digital video-playing boxes, or the direct play slot of a TV set!

how humans work - pull out thumb drive - thumb drive gets corrupted - blames the thumb drive

My sister has been through 7 ish drives in the last 6 months because she never ejects it, it ends up either deleting files or corrupting the whole drive. Make sure you eject if you use them for any sort of work or school

@basvanderwerff2725

6 жыл бұрын

she must be doing somethign else wrong i not even knew this was a thing and been not doing it my whole life never had a drive fail or corrupt

@kendokaaa

6 жыл бұрын

...she could just reformat the drive afterwards Fuck some people are dumb

@Duncan23

6 жыл бұрын

She's not the most tech savvy person if you haven't already guessed, i dont even think she knows what formatting is

@torypryce

6 жыл бұрын

U rlly a mek him diss ur sister suh?

@IkBenBenG

6 жыл бұрын

+Kendokaa Or use a tool such as testdisk to rebuild the partition. There is a part of the drive which tells a computer how files are stored on it, and when that part is damaged your computer isn't able to find any of the files, even though they are often still there. Some tools can scan the full drive to rebuild that part and you'll have most of your data back. Such tools can take hours to do that though.

Removes USB mouse while using it. Plugs it back on - data corrupted

@jairusgerardzapata4862

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@noitamina8216

5 жыл бұрын

"surprised pikachu meme"

@haterhayder

5 жыл бұрын

You joke but that actually happened to my OG Razer Death Adder and, according to the internet at the time, I wasn't the only person it happened to.

Not ejecting your USB drives is like randomly making someone go into labor like "you're taking to long to have that baby, yank" and now you have a metaphorical corrupted fetus.

I feel like everytime somebody in my surroundings forgot to eject the USB first, it ended up corrupted.

As someone who used to make programs, i can confirm write back cache is used heavily. Always close programs properly, and select eject. If sonething hangs, give it time. It's never worth trying to force something to happen and risk losing all data.

7 million views, lol, that's a little optimistic 0:11

@HookerHeels

6 жыл бұрын

WE HAVE TO GET IT TO 7.2M+ VIEWS.

Back in the days, I was actually pretty careful about ejecting CD drives. I actually had a couple of times where Windows (98 SE, I think) bluescreened on me because I ejected a CD that was still in use.

Interesting never gave that a thought Good to know thanks Linus

I always eject them without disabling it from settings. Never got a data loss or damaged anything on a usb port.

I have used thumb drives thousands of times. Transfering hundreds of terabytes of data at least. Not once have I ever ejected it, and not once have I ever had corrupted data :p

@zaidabraham7310

6 жыл бұрын

Ejuice Vaper Shh you'll make the Pitbull owners agro

@charlesdeviti2034

6 жыл бұрын

Of course nothing’s gonna happen if all you do is transfer data to the drives. That isn’t the overrall point of this video.

@charlesdeviti2034

6 жыл бұрын

Ejuice Vaper Read my response again and see if there’s anything wrong to what I said. I’ll assure you there isn’t. On the other hand, leaving pitbulls with children unattended is a cruel thing and you think that’s good? At this point i’m not even gonna respond back to you, have a “good” day.

@FrankieHiltz

6 жыл бұрын

Loneamaruq He * and no, not lying. I've been using USBs for 10 years now. I've used them for raring 75gb games into parts to transfer one piece at a time for offline PCs in the past. Hundreds and hundreds of GB's of movies and TV shows every few months, etc. By this time in my life, yes definitely hundreds or tb of data transfer using USBs.

@cool555breeze

6 жыл бұрын

Not on a Mac, are we? ROTFLMAO...

1:09 OS: Writing this file to the USB drive D:... You: [Pulls out the USB stick] OS: Hey! Where's the USB gone?! I still have half a [censored]-ing file to write!

I've had more corruption on my sd card than a usb stick and that never leaves my phone.

I always wanted to know that, THX LTT team

@theenzoferrari458

6 жыл бұрын

Silver Shine you work for THX?

@SilverShinepony

6 жыл бұрын

justinl458 perhaps

"Answer is a definite probably" -Linus

When I was in desktop support, I can't tell you how many times users just yanked the thumb drive and bricked the thing. I was just like, "Well, you have to buy a new one now."

@muffinxcancer

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds "supportive"

Always use safe eject for external hard drives because they should stop spinning before power cuts off. If you think just pulling USB flash drive out is safe, you can do it, but I always use safe eject for any external storage. In macOS, safe ejection is easier than in Windows.

i thought modern drives have a built in mechanism to allow "yanking out" without major corruptions, since i remember in an old windows xp pc i yanked an old 1gb drive and all the pc usb port is disabled (or went off for some reason) and the drive is toast i still yank my drive out especially when they just go "bleh" and hangs everytime i plug it in and so far no dead/corrupt drive along with its data

@dayvie9517

6 жыл бұрын

G3 the operating system would have to have this function, since it does the writing/reading behind the curtain which you interrupt by just pulling out

@dcfuksurmom

6 жыл бұрын

an dead/corrupted flash drive (even if does not show) can usually be repaired/reformated with any advanced disk utility.

@Asidders

5 жыл бұрын

I hate it then USB drives go "bleh"

Every time I click eject USB drive, the windows doesn't let me, so I have to forcefully pull it out.

Not ejecting USB drives is kind of a _'High risk, low reward'_ thing. You can save a couple of seconds _But you should still eject them, just in case._

USB is the Goldigger of the hardware world: Computer: "have you got all the cache you need my love" USB: "Yes honeybuns" Computer: "Ok I'm off to work, cya later MWAH" USB: "Have a good day baby" /proceeds to rinse more

"If you pull it out, before your computer finished..."

So my external hard drive doesn't have an eject option. Should I just yank out? What I've been doing is leaving it running until I turn the computer off, then unplug it before I turn it back on.

@Deffcolony

5 жыл бұрын

if you plug it out during the write process, then the files get broken and some operating systems can not handle that without breaking

Never even heard of ejecting a USB drive and I've never had an issue with losing data.

@misterpotatoman1189

3 жыл бұрын

It's better safe than crying

@hamizannaruto

3 жыл бұрын

It's not easy to get your data corrupt. Most of the time, you will be safe. Windows already think of people who are not tech savvy enough, and thus already out the safer option as default. However, it best to be safe than sorry. It happen to me 2 times before, and you never learn until it hit you hard. Let's just say, I spent all night redownloading everything..

Hello. Thanks for this always-nice-to-remember-tips video. Anyways, maybe you should have detailed the risks of hot ejecting flash drives and hot ejecting USB external hard drives. HDD are very susceptible kids so maybe the philosophy is different. Moreover, sometimes, Windows refuses you to eject your drive even if you ask it. There is a possibility to do it another way, like killing applications that really use the drive or eject it in the desktop window and to the popup "USB drive still in use", you can choose to stop the OS using the USB drive and allow you to remove it.

Linus you should also talk about what to do when you close all programs and still shows "this device is currently in use".

@seangraylin

6 жыл бұрын

beat me to it, commented that as well

@mynameisozymandias811

6 жыл бұрын

Or you Eject USB Drives and still get the same msg "this device is currently in use".

@Minecraft101ToonLink

6 жыл бұрын

Then just restart your computer. Or better yet, Shut Down the computer, and when you know that the computer has completely shut down, pull the drive out, and turn your computer back on.

@teardowndan5364

6 жыл бұрын

I get that one every now and then, quite annoying. When this happens, I just make sure that everything I had open on the drive was closed, wait a second or two, then yank it out anyway - I'm not going to reboot my PC just to eject a thumb-drive that Explorer won't disconnect for some unexplained reason.

@seangraylin

6 жыл бұрын

101ToonLink why should someone have to shut down their machine just to eject their USB drive? Especially if someone has a slower machine that takes a while to boot up

The problem is, if the eject function is to "tell Windows to wrap up whatever it's doing", it really isn't doing what it's supposed to do. Not only does it not actually wrap anything up, but it tells me that it cannot eject and does not tell me which application it is being accessed by. Furthermore, even when all applications (foreground and background) are shut down, many times it tells me that it is still under use. I end up restarting the computer to eject it, or, if I'm absolutely sure nothing is being written and if I have a copy of the files on the storage device elsewhere, I just yank it out. It really should be implemented better.

@TBoy205

5 жыл бұрын

Isaac K how do you close all programs

@Acorn_Anomaly

5 жыл бұрын

This is usually caused by a buggy driver or shell extension that invalidly holds open a reference to a file somewhere on the drive. Sometimes you can get lucky with SysInternals' Process Explorer's handle search, and find whatever's holding it open. You're supposed to close references to files that aren't in use anymore, and if you're a driver or shell extension, you're also supposed to register for notifications from the system so it can let you know when it's trying to eject a filesystem you're currently using. But considering any dumbfuck with the ability to Google and install VSC can write a shell extension, (and the people companies have making their drivers and shell extensions are often just that skilled), you'll find them skipping a lot of things they're "supposed to do" because "it works just fine on my system, stupid Microsoft over-complicating everything." Yeah, Microsoft has those standards that you're supposed to do, but there's no real way to enforce them. "Well, fuck those people, Microsoft should just change to enforcing it, anyway, and break those people that don't know what they're doing." Yeah, funny story, Microsoft did that in the past. It's called Vista. Remember how well THAT turned out? Don't get me wrong, there were TONS of problems with Vista when it first came out, and the blame for it belongs all over the place for different reasons(including Microsoft themselves, yes.) However, the absolute biggest problem for Vista was the staggeringly large amount of software that wasn't prepared for Vista to start enforcing user-admin privilege separation boundaries. Note that I didn't say "add"; those boundaries existed since even before Windows NT 4.0, back in 1996. However, NT was really only used in businesses. Consumer stuff used the DOS-based 9x line, which didn't have those boundaries. Until XP, which merged the 9x and NT lines, brought those same security boundaries to home users. How did application developers react to the new standards? With a big "meh". "It works fine, as long as it's on an admin account, and everyone uses admin accounts with XP, anyway." "Stupid Microsoft, trying to over-complicate everything." And then Vista came out. And we all know how that went. The problem with Microsoft making a change and starting to be heavy-handed in enforcing guidelines like this is that it doesn't punish the companies that made the programs in question; it punishes their _customers._ MICROSOFT'S customers. And when they break those programs, what do the customers logically think? "It worked on Windows X, it's broken on Windows Y. Microsoft broke it, god, they can't do anything right." I know it publicly doesn't seem like it today, but it's really interesting how far MS takes application compatibility, simply because they know that last bit. ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplechapter/Chen_bonus_ch01.pdf has some really interesting stories from Raymond Chen, one of the core devs on the Windows team that dates back, I believe, to Windows 1.0 itself. He's been there the entire way, and he has all kinds of fascinating crap about what they see from third parties, and have to deal with. ESPECIALLY the games that hardware makers play, trying to save a bit of resources, either in the hardware itself, or in dev time for the drivers. Besides that, he's got a lot more stuff at Old New Thing, his blog: blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030828-00/?p=42753

@ooiyenchun6851

5 жыл бұрын

You can go to windows explorer to eject by right click at thumbdrive and select eject. There will be an "eject anyways" options

@ooiyenchun6851

5 жыл бұрын

But make sure you saved everything that you make changes b4 doing it

Yanking the USB without ejecting is like opening the lid of a blender... *While it's still on!*

0:34 That USB drive is upside down... LOL ;-)

This took 5 minutes to tell me it takes 2 seconds to eject the flash drive Thanks linus!

@TheSeeker2013

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, but think of all the self-excuses you would come up with to yank it out anyway. Now at least you'll have second thoughts.

I already learned the hard way.

It's the third time I get a pulseway ad featuring Linus on a Linus video lmao

Linus: Freshb- Me: *switching to another video before he says it*