If this happens often, you can disable write caching for that drive. It’ll feel slightly slower (since it’s actually operating at the speed of the hardware instead of caching operations in RAM and gradually writing them to disk in the background), but you’ll be able to remove the drive almost instantly.
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Democrats Are Already “Moderate.” It’s Not Working.English6·22 hours agoone of the worst presidents of our time
Given the competition, he’s actually one of the best of our time.
That’s not a good thing.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Do you recognize this guy playing video games?English7·23 hours agoThe funny thing is he looks like both of them.
I was having terrible performance problems in Windows a while back, and it turned out it had marked every drive as removable, and the write cache was filling up due to an extremely slow external HDD, causing even the internal SSDs to grind to a halt until the buffer was flushed whenever a large amounts of writes were made to the HDD (which was often, since it was used for backups and large Steam games).