Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > I have reformatted the drives in-situ The NAS offered a `reformat'? How long did it take? > My PC is in the bedroom, so I'd rather not run it overnight. Kill it off then start from scratch tomorrow morning, assuming ten hours for a disk? > I suspect that part of the problem is

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Hamish MB
For modern drives a single pass with zeros is usually just fine. You can use dd if=/dev/zero of=/Dev/sdxy You could copy from /Dev/urandom for a quicker random number pass too. Hamish On 17 Feb 2018, at 18:38, Keith Edmunds > wrote: On Sat, 17

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 18:36:34 GMT Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:31:53 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > > I'd be happier if there was no chance of data recovery. > > Then destroy the drives. I want to sell them with the NAS Box. I do know about hammers :-) --

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 18:31:53 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > I'd be happier if there was no chance of data recovery. Then destroy the drives. -- "Laughter is the best medicine, though it tends not to work in the case of impotence" - Jo Brand -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday,

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Terry Coles
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 17:56:45 GMT Keith Edmunds wrote: > Shred is slow. No one will trivially read the ex-data following a > reformat. I suppose if the drive used to hold your plans for world > domination, a few more hours of shred is a small price to pay. However, > if the drive only

Re: [Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Keith Edmunds
Shred is slow. No one will trivially read the ex-data following a reformat. I suppose if the drive used to hold your plans for world domination, a few more hours of shred is a small price to pay. However, if the drive only held data of interest to you and you don't want the PC running overnight,

[Dorset] Using shred

2018-02-17 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, I am retiring my old D-Link Sharecenter NAS with a view to flogging it on eBay. Clearly, I want to ensure the data has been completely scrubbed off the two 1TB drives. I have reformatted the drives in-situ, but felt that I should do more than that, so I've removed the drives and am