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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...
benoitx wrote:
So, since there are no comments on the upgrade method from 1TB to 2TB, I assume that it is the correct way.
Depends what disks you choose. If you choose 4k sector disks you'll want to ensure you have 4k sector alignment: Why you might want to factory reset a Sparc ReadyNAS
benoitx wrote:
The only remaining question is whether a product like DBan or any other secure disk eraser would work 'remotely'... and that means that I would have to replug the 2 1TB disks in the Duo in order to do this? However long that takes...
They wouldn't work remotely like that. The disks would need to be connected to the system running it. You could try connecting the disks in an external enclosure to your Mac, open Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility) and do an erase. Under Security Options there should be options to do secure erases of different strengths.
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