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

Tap the eject button to the right of your USB drive's name. It disappears from the files app and the hardware lights on the drive turn off.

It keeps the cache enabled on non-removable drives, though—and sometimes it recognizes external USB drives as not removable, which is why your USB drive doesn't have an eject button.

Dev Eject is a freeware Windows tool that lets you safely remove USB devices. It generates list of connected USB drives & helps manage unresponsive USB's.

Pull a USB flash drive out of your Mac without first clicking to eject it, and you’ll get a stern, shameful warning: “Disk Not Ejected Properly.” But do you really need to eject a thumb ...

When you're finished, you should be able to instantly eject any drive with a couple of quick keystrokes without clicking through menus.

It offers a small eject button on the Import tab but the button rarely if ever registers my furious clicks. Thankfully, there are other ways to eject an external storage device from a Mac.

If you have an external optical drive in OS X, the built-in Eject key on the keyboard may not work with it, so here are some options for handling external discs on your Mac.