You need to safely eject your SD cards and USB drives - except for when you don't

Safely ejecting SD cards and USB flash drives is standard practice to avoid potential data loss - at least on the surface, that is.
Ars Technica

"Fixing" the CD eject button on MBPs...

Is there a way to disable the CD eject button? It's so damn close to the delete button that I find myself accidentally pressing it. Nothing's more annoying than have an ejecting CD popping out all the ...
The Verge

The eject button held all the power on the original Xbox

The most important button on the original Xbox wasn’t the power button: it was the button to eject the disc tray. Conceptually, this doesn’t make sense. Of course the power button should be the most ...
Ars Technica

HP Dat 72 tape drive: Can't eject tape!??!! - help?

I have an HP Dat 72 tape drive in my SQL server and the tape WILL NOT EJECT.<BR><BR>My backups have been failing because of this.<BR><BR>SQL Server can't read the drive as it times out, so I tried ...