Re: What is the point of "Safely remove hardware" icon?


Menno Hershberger wrote:

Go to device manager, disk drives, right click the removable drive and
choose Properties. Under Properties, pick the Policy Tab, and pick
"Optimize for Safe Removal"
See http://mewnlite.com/dm.gif

For me it seems to be an urban legend that these setting
make any difference under Windows XP.
'Optimize for performance' enables the user to format
the drive with NTFS, that's all. But for NTFS formatted
USB drives write behind caching is always activated while
it's never for FAT or FAT32 formated USB drives.
After format an USB with NTFS you can switch back to
'Optimize for Safe Removal' and get again no difference.

Even there is a bit truth in the captions of the settings
they are very misleading.


http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html


Greetings from Germany

Uwe



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