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Securely delete NAS data before resale
Hello All, I am an owner of a Netgear ReadyNAS 10400. Although the NAS has served me well i have outgrown its capacity and now must say farewell to it, this will probably be by means of eBay. ...
Thanks for the reply Mark. Do you know if 'Doing a Factory reset permanently deletes your data' does anything technical to ensure that ? Such as writing blank data over my old data ? Certainly could look to use 3rd party software in another PC to do that but was hoping NetGear already did something like this to save that hassle.
I might sell the drives separately as suggested. As the drives have some value I’m not wanting to physically destroying them at this time, as fun as it sounds.
Nasfandago wrote:
Do you know if 'Doing a Factory reset permanently deletes your data' does anything technical to ensure that ? Such as writing blank data over my old data ?
It will reformat the drives, but that might not fully erase your user data. So it is conceivable that RAID recovery tools like ReclaiMe could find some of it.
I believe cipher assumes ntfs formatting, so it's not a good tool for this. In particular, it might not encrypt free space. I suggest using the write-zeros tools in lifeguard or seagate.
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