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Upgrade disks and SECURE erase?
HI * I have a few posts about this but I want to confirm a couple of basic points for my ReadyNAS Duo (2 x 1TB RAID). 1) I'd like to upgrade the disks to 2TB, I believe it is the maximum for Rea...
Formatting them in the NAS would not do a secure erase [note that here is an option to do a secure erase on x86 ReadyNAS (e.g. NVX, Ultra, Pro) but not Sparc ReadyNAS (e.g. Duo, NV+)] . However once disks have been initialised data recovery is very difficult. If you subsequently format it using a laptop it becomes even harder to recover data (the person trying to recover data would somehow need to guess how the NAS formatted and partitioned the disk and even then the chances of them recovering anything wouldn't be good).
What OS is on your laptops?
If you still want to do a secure erase, ideally you'd find a program that can write zeroes to an external disk (I would think this should be possible). If worse comes to worst you could format the disk using your laptop fill up the disk with data (e.g. several copies of a Linux iso or some other large file), format disk, fill up with data etc. a few times or so.
What OS is on your laptops?
If you still want to do a secure erase, ideally you'd find a program that can write zeroes to an external disk (I would think this should be possible). If worse comes to worst you could format the disk using your laptop fill up the disk with data (e.g. several copies of a Linux iso or some other large file), format disk, fill up with data etc. a few times or so.
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