peteypauls t1_ixyteww wrote on November 27, 2022 at 1:23 PM Reply to ELI5 why do you need to turn of hard drives to unplug them instead of just unplugging them by Devil_kin1 You eject them to make sure nothing is being written at the time. If you pull the cable out while writing you could corrupt the data. Permalink 2
peteypauls t1_ixyteww wrote
Reply to ELI5 why do you need to turn of hard drives to unplug them instead of just unplugging them by Devil_kin1
You eject them to make sure nothing is being written at the time. If you pull the cable out while writing you could corrupt the data.