for those of us who don't wear seat belts ..... or practice un-safe sex .... or don't use safely remove hardware ....

you will probably get away with it some of the time .... :rolleyes:

you may even get away with it most of the time ..... :cool:

but you wont get away with it all of the time :{

try it and you will see what I mean ... :p

Beags, I have not personally encountered any problems with USB memory sticks, but I have had several with USB hard disks.

There is much less likely to be any write-back latency in a USB memory stick - being solid state it is nearly as fast to write to as main memory.

I don't know whether it is related or not, but I have seen many flash memory devices discarded as having become "unreliable" - I wonder if this has anything to do with premature ejection ;)

See

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar.../16/43890.aspx

and

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/ar...05/108205.aspx

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