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?

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    Yeah my first thought was just keep running dd commands, and sooner or later you’ll have the hdd wiped.

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      Instructions unclear, accidentally deleted 200 EB of irrecoverable NASA data.