Do you safely eject USB flash drives off computers? Or do you merely unplug them? Well as it turns out, all those years of ejecting USB drives for safety reasons do not need to be done at all. Microsoft recently has all but confirmed this rumour.

Why Eject a USB Drive?

Promotional USB drives need to be ejected to prevent data from being lost or corrupted when you unplug the key from your drive -- that's the oldest rule in the book! This is especially true if you were in the midst of transferring a file. If you disconnect the flash drive mid-way then obviously the file transfer process will be interrupted, leading to a loss in data. Even when you are not transferring files, a file transfer process

USB flash drives are pretty notorious for coming in all manner of shapes and sizes. Over the years we've seen some pretty bizarre examples of customised thumb drives, but these new ones we've spotted recently might just be the weirdest USBs of all. Check out these kooky and crazy promotional flash drives that defy all expectations!

Top Five Crazy Custom USB Flash Drives

While we stock a lot of unique promotional USB flash drives here at Cubic Promote, we can't deny that there's some serious competition in the weirdness stakes from elsewhere on the web. The message in a bottle flash drive you see above is quirky, but it's not THAT strange -- don't worry, we've found five bizarre USBs

Being a leading vendor for memory sticks for a while now we have always wanted to know what people use them for? So we decided to ask! We had a theory: if it’s important, it goes on the memory stick. So, we set out to find out what ten Aussies kept on their memory sticks! Warning, it’s the good, the bad and the shameful! Go on, tell us, what’s on your memory stick?

10 Aussies Tell Us What is on Their USB Stick

What’s on your memory stick?

”I want to say it’s something exciting like the cure for cancer or something