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Originally posted by raceprouk
The 'Safely Remove Hardware' is mostly used for hard disk drives and the like, which use a small cache to enhance performance. If you disconnect the drive before the cache is written to disk, you risk losing data. Pen drives and memory card readers don't use caching AFAIK, so theoretically you can remove them without risking data.
There's actually a setting...
I believe "optimize for quick removal" is the default, but it wouldn't hurt to confirm that setting...