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Identifying a failing drive
Hi all, I'm running an original NV with 3x1TB drives. In the last day or so, one of the drives has gotten pretty noisy - it sounds almost like a drive is constantly running and the normal noise th...
Or zero the entire drive. WD lifeguard will do that (and that function is not limited to WDC disks).
mdgm wrote: Your data wouldn't be able to be recovered just off that disk. Anyway, if you want and if the drive still kind of works (not completely dead) you could write zeroes to the start of the disk. That would be wipe the partition table off the disk. You could then format it with say NTFS and someone looking at the disk may think it was taken from a Windows machine rather than from a NAS.
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