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tristan1
Jul 16, 2012Aspirant
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...
xyxoxy
Apr 03, 2013Aspirant
Thanks again tristan...
For anyone still following along - I can report that trying to use sfill in secure mode (full 38 wipes with random data) was going to quite literally take a couple of weeks to complete on my 1TB array. I think it had only completed something like 36GB after 24 hours. So I decided to abort it and go with a couple variations of the less secure options:
These took several hours each but at least hit the entire array with a few overwrites.
I did also erase the swap space using sswap as follows:
Identify your swap partitions
disable them
wipe them
These only took maybe 10-15 minutes each to complete.
Now on to the factory reset and then finally install the new drives!
For anyone still following along - I can report that trying to use sfill in secure mode (full 38 wipes with random data) was going to quite literally take a couple of weeks to complete on my 1TB array. I think it had only completed something like 36GB after 24 hours. So I decided to abort it and go with a couple variations of the less secure options:
sfill -l -v -z /c/
sfill -f -l -v /c/
These took several hours each but at least hit the entire array with a few overwrites.
I did also erase the swap space using sswap as follows:
Identify your swap partitions
cat /proc/swaps
disable them
sudo swapoff /dv/hdc2
sudo swapoff /dv/hde2
sudo swapoff /dv/hdg2
wipe them
sudo sswap /dev/hdc2
sudo sswap /dev/hde2
sudo sswap /dev/hdg2
These only took maybe 10-15 minutes each to complete.
Now on to the factory reset and then finally install the new drives!
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