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GreyWullf
Jun 15, 2015Aspirant
How do I reformat the drives and create a new Raid 5
Good day, I have a ReadyNAS NV +V2 with 4 X 3 TB drives and RAIDator version 5.3.11 that I want to sell as I have upgraded to a newer NAS which accepts 6 TB drives. I want to reformat the drives and ...
mdgm-ntgr
Jun 15, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
Via RAIDar 4.3.8 you can select to do a secure erase when doing a factory default. This secure erase will take several hours. Note that if you abort this secure erase the disks will be locked. If the disks are locked the NAS will do a factory reset every reboot.
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