What exactly gets damaged when a flash drive is wrongly removed from USB slot?

In the normal way, we have to safely remove a flash drive so that no damages take place. So, what exactly gets damaged if we just remove the flash drive without doing anything?

What exactly gets damaged when a flash drive is wrongly removed from USB slot?
The ability to be read. The internal memory of it. If you do it often, at some point next time you plug it in the computer is not going to recognize this device...therefore...it is damaged!
Reply:do this;


in my computer, right click on the usb drive when it is plugged in.


the removable disk properties window opens.


click on the 'hardware' tab.





highlight the 'generic storage device' or whatever the usb is called in the 'al disk drives' window and then click on the 'properties button.


the 'generic storage device usb device properties window opens.


click on the policies tab.





There you are, two choices, one for speed and one for quick removal.





If you try to transfer a file say 1 gig and you pull the usb out after 3 or 4 seconds the whole file will not have been copied so the file will be incomplete and so 'damaged'.
Reply:Usually what happens is any data that you have just copied to/from the flash drive will disappear. It won't do any actual physical damage to the drive, you just might lose some data.
Reply:Personally I always rip my usb key out without the safely remove thing. I think it's simply a precaution so that if you are saving/copying, or even using a file located on the flash drive that it tells you to stop using it. If you are you risk corruptin the file. Thats basically it. If you are not using or viewing any of the files on the key, or adding / copying files then your safe to just rip[ it out... i do... My usb keys never die out..





I hope i helped if i did...lemme know...
Reply:Data written to any drive may not actually be immediately transmitted to the drive. This is known as "write caching" and is an efficiency measure. The first problem with removing a flash drive from the USB slot is that it could be removed before all the cache gets written, leaving some not written. Using the official Safely Remove Hardware forces the cache to be written out.





The second problem is similar but could be worse. Removing the drive cuts the power to it. If the drive is in the middle of writing, that power cut could damage not only the data but the underlying device format structure. That could be VERY serious.





Hope that helps.
Reply:I've never had one damaged when you remove it, but I guess some of the files on the flash drive can be corrupted or deleted by accident. Never happened to me.
Reply:The data on the flas drive could be damaged or lost. But the actual frash drive wont be hurt.