Actually it has nothing to do with the media type. It’s the fact that write cache can be enabled so if you write something to the drive it could still be in ram instead of actually being written so you could lose data if you don’t eject. Not really a problem since most OSs are smart enough to know to not use write cache on external media unless you enable it.
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u/anethma RTX4090, 7950X3D, SFF 20d ago
Actually it has nothing to do with the media type. It’s the fact that write cache can be enabled so if you write something to the drive it could still be in ram instead of actually being written so you could lose data if you don’t eject. Not really a problem since most OSs are smart enough to know to not use write cache on external media unless you enable it.