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
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
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 :-)
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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.
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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
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,
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
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