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victorhortalive
Jun 13, 2014Aspirant
Format etc drives without access to SATA ?
I'm about to get rid of my last PC and go exclusively to laptops. One of the reason I kept it was that I remember that if I need to use an old ReadyNAS drive in another ReadyNAS, then first I have t...
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 13, 2014NETGEAR Employee Retired
Yes, you can use a USB enclosure to do this.
One downside of a USB enclosure though is that it may not work with vendor tools to diagnose drives e.g. SeaTools or WD LifeGuard Diagnostics.
One downside of a USB enclosure though is that it may not work with vendor tools to diagnose drives e.g. SeaTools or WD LifeGuard Diagnostics.
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