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  • an USB device can (when normally used and not receiving additional power from an other place than the data port) NOT get damaged by pulling it from the system (its a port designed to be 'hot-plugable' you can however lose data if you do due to caches not being written to disk.
    – LvB
    Commented Jan 20, 2015 at 9:55