- Feb 19, 2014
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Hello Community!
I have a question and I have searched for quite some time now.
So my dilemma begins with my SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 listing itself as "fixed" since the beginning. I know that SanDisk has made this drive to be "fixed" rather than "removable" for Win8 however with an uproar and disapproval from the community, has reverted back to shipping these as standard "fixed."
My question is: What's are the pros and cons of having a fixed vs removable USB drive?
Is it the way that some of the data is cached on a fixed drive? I'm asking because I have some sensitive files I would like to store away on the USB drive, however I am conflicted if I have to consistently ensure that I have no data being read/write onto the drive and turning off my computer every single time I would like to pull out my USB. Am I at a larger risk of losing data vs removable due to writing caching on device? Or should I just make sure that all data is written and move on with my life? Also being "fixed" would this have the same I guess "hot swap" -ability as some HDD's and SSD's are able to do?
Thank you.
I have a question and I have searched for quite some time now.
So my dilemma begins with my SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 listing itself as "fixed" since the beginning. I know that SanDisk has made this drive to be "fixed" rather than "removable" for Win8 however with an uproar and disapproval from the community, has reverted back to shipping these as standard "fixed."
My question is: What's are the pros and cons of having a fixed vs removable USB drive?
Is it the way that some of the data is cached on a fixed drive? I'm asking because I have some sensitive files I would like to store away on the USB drive, however I am conflicted if I have to consistently ensure that I have no data being read/write onto the drive and turning off my computer every single time I would like to pull out my USB. Am I at a larger risk of losing data vs removable due to writing caching on device? Or should I just make sure that all data is written and move on with my life? Also being "fixed" would this have the same I guess "hot swap" -ability as some HDD's and SSD's are able to do?
Thank you.
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