FWIW, this 1TB Western Digital that I have to remove this way - it has
no power light, no activity light, no on/off switch. Other than a faint
humming sound, there is no way to tell if it is on or off, or if it is
still writing. So, I just follow the manufacturer's instruction, and use
the "safely remove hardware". It's not difficult. :-)
Candace
CyberSimian wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote (Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:10 PM):
>
>
>> With a disk cached involved you can't necessarily tell when writing is
>> really finished. A short wait while observing no disk activity is
>> probably adequate... but only "probably".
>>
>
> My expectation is that selecting "Optimize for quick removal" would stop the
> disk cache being used for that particular USB disk. This would degrade
> performance somewhat, but ought to mean that when the disk activity light
> stops flashing, all updates have been written to the disk. However, Jim's
> experience is at variance with this, so who knows what is really happening.
>
> -- from CyberSimian in the UK
>
>
>
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