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?
Since dipshits are down voting me for being right, I’ll just leave this here
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/[sdx] bs=4096K status=progress
Or for multiple passes:
sudo shred -fzv /dev/[sdx]
Change [sdx] to the drive you want to wipe, make sure you double check it’s the right one.
Assuming the drive writes normally a simple command like
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdX
Where sdX is the location of the drive should do the trick. Depending on drive time this may take a bit.
Yeah my first thought was just keep running dd commands, and sooner or later you’ll have the hdd wiped.
shred or alternatively you can zero out all the bytes in a drive with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<DRIVE>
