A Qnap NAS has a drive with some bad sectors, I want to RMA it, but before just want to figure out how to prepare a drive? It’s part of a raid 5 setup of 4 drives unencrypted. So I want to remove it and wipe it. Got a Linux machine I can use, but never done this before.

What are common Linux tools to do that sensibly?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    The day job is Private Possum territory, so our agreement is

    • we won’t send in drives
    • we will send proof of destruction

    and I’m sure it costs more, but we don’t have to worry about recovered user data.

    Our stuff is also in those crazy-secure datacenters, too, so we don’t need to mess with crypto-at-rest.