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Originally Posted by bblost  Imagine this.
2 buckets, one bucket holds 20 liters and its is full.
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bucket is a PC. |
OK, I give up - never did well in arithmetic in school! I am still trying to figure out which PC can hold 30l of water, and which pen drive can hold 0.5l. And your point was ...?
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Originally Posted by akash_m It has happened to me twice! My Transcend 4GB pen drive got corrupted ... |
Commiserations, @akash_m, either your HU is giving a massive jolt of static to the pen-drives (HU grounding problem), or passing on massive amount of heat through the connector/tracks, or you have got 'lemons'/fakes twice.
Usually HUs will connect to USB devices ONLY in READ mode - they never try to write anything, so there is no possibility of spurious writes.
"Safely remove hardware" is required only with Windows machines, since directory changes may not be written to the pendrive if you remove it, resulting in a corrupted directory. If nothing has been written during a session, the pendrive can be removed anytime.