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How to securely wipe your ReadyNAS
Hi there, Since I saw a lot of people here on the forum asking the same question; how can I securely erase, delete, wipe my hard disk before selling, RMA etc and all the suggestions led to one gene...
If you do a secure delete of your files they would be gone. If you do a factory default with the drives in place that would make data recovery even more difficult (if it wasn't already impossible).
If you're wanting to sell your drives (not with your NAS) you could hook them up to your PC and format them to use NTFS as I suggested earlier. Most people would assume, that they were connected to a Windows PC and wouldn't suspect they were formatted using the EXT3 filesystem
If you're wanting to sell your drives (not with your NAS) you could hook them up to your PC and format them to use NTFS as I suggested earlier. Most people would assume, that they were connected to a Windows PC and wouldn't suspect they were formatted using the EXT3 filesystem
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