Many folk thought it was optional to eject the drives. I think I found a good explanation for that when one replied with the following.
"Oh, I thought they fixed that since I yank the drive all the time."
Bob
I am a network administrator for an organization and over the last two days I have had had six different staff members bring their corrupted/crashed USB devices in for repair.

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