Safely Remove Hardware Passes Away: Microsoft Changes Default Way To Disconnect USB Devices

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Disconnecting a storage device connected to our PC, mobile phone or tablet can provide problems if we do not do it correctly Normally and despite Because we can do it hot, we opted to use the Safely Remove Hardware option before disconnecting a USB storage device."

It is normal to navigate to the control bar to locate the icon and activate this option in case of fear of possible data lossIt is not usually common, but the risk is always there, latent. A possibility that exists thanks to the two ways of working that Windows offers in this sense.

Safely Remove Hardware

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When disconnecting a USB storage device, Microsoft&39;s operating system had been working with two options. One call Better performance, which was used by default, more secure, and another call Quick Delete , which was the secondary option."

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If you want to know which policy is applied to your computer, just access the My Computer section and locate the connected removable device. We _click_ on it with the right mouse button and enter Properties, where we must look for the Hardware tab, again another one called Properties and within it, in Advanced, we will access the Directives tab and we will find the extraction properties there."

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It should be noted that until now, with the Better performance option, what the system does is that caches the data instead of writing it to the USB device immediatelyThis improves performance but increases the risk of data loss if the Safely Remove Hardware option is not used."

An order that we now know changed with the arrival of Windows 10 October 2018 Update. Microsoft has confirmed, through a report, that it has changed the way Windows interacts with the storage devices we connect to our computers via USB.

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Now the default option is Quick Delete, so you reduce the risk of losing files while lowering the performance of the USB device that we have connected.This option means that to remove the USB device we do not necessarily have to use the Safely Remove Hardware option."

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By following the steps we have seen before, users can, yes, change the method used by default on their computer and return a Better performance, keeping in mind that you will then need to use the Safely Remove Hardware option again."

Source | Microsoft Via | Neowin