Fucking windows , everytime I come to use it for premiere pro and every fucking time it manages to disappoint me and waste my time . It makes me a biased hater of it.
No BG process is running neither anything is copied from the external drive . Fucking trash OS.

Sorry (from bill)

But you can configure more things than a Mac...

@sheriffderek I've never been a mac user but a linux user all the time so yeah you get my point

Well at least it wont corrupt your data when you unplug it and you're not using the data you care about. Somehow Linux / macos dus have a permanent hold on it for no good reason. So i understand youve been trained to use it.

I never use the unplug safely thing in windows, i just watch the hdd activity led (no blink? Unplug. Blink? End process) , i never buy usb thumbdrives without one either. No problems the last 15 years. I just use it on my surface book or egpu.

In macos and linux I do use it, all the time. Fucked up a couple then learned my lesson.

Well, that's your experiance.

I can show you 1000 similar fucked up things on Linux. (Ex : Mount a drive, reboot OS, mount is not done automnaticlly on boot, you need to MANUALLY edit a friking file to make it work)

Personally, I find windows more stable for home use by a great margin. But again I'm manly windows user and I probably avoid "pitfalls" subconsciously.

@jkommeren what? Windows can absolutely corrupt data if you just pull out usb. Happened to me. That’s why I always use this safely unplug feature. That is, if Windows lets me. Because I also get this messages that the device is being used.
Didn’t have this problems with Mac though. Unmount means unmount.

@Lensflare im not saying you cant cause corruption. Just saying that when the drive activity status indicator is doing nothing, and you're using your brain, it's pretty safe to unplug.

And I've found that this is not possible at all with Unix based oses, as my leds never stopped blinking , and i have to use unmount, like you said, or face corruption.

Not saying it's right or wrong. Just that ive found that saves the hastle in edge cases for windows, like yours might be.

The edge case being its not really being used. In other cases its task manager to the rescue.

Anyway, of course Microsoft should get their shit together 😅