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[cdkone]

I have a DNS-321 with 2 - Western Digital WD Green WD20EADS 2TB drives, in a Raid 1 configuration. Plus I have a brand new spare Western Digital WD Green WD20EADS 2TB drive a well.

Can anyone give me advice on how to prepare the disks and the DNS-321 for resale. I would want to attempt to completely wipe all data from the two drives and return the DNS-321 to its original factory settings.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[JavaLawyer]

Performing a factory reset on the DNS-321 will completely remove all user settings. Please see the following post for the procedure:

DNS ShareCenter - Restoring Factory Default Settings

As far as cleansing the HDDs are concerned, there are a myriad of options depending on how obsessive you want to get. There are many software options (free and paid) available that will have different levels of erasure. Better applications will adhere to government standards, which include writing data to all sectors of the HDD. Depending on the product, you may have options to select the number of passes the software makes across the HDD.

[cdkone]

Thanks for your advice, can you recommend a product that will cleanse the disks while they are still in the DNS-321? Or do I have to remove them and attach them to a PC to be able to use something like DBan?

[JavaLawyer]

I personally haven't used any such products in recent years, so I'm not in a position offer any specific suggestions. Another point to consider is that the DNS-321 formats HDDs using the Linux filesystem and I am not sure if that creates any dependencies that impacts how these types of utilities work. If the application is simply sweeping the HDD and writing to every sector it might not matter. If you want to play it safe, you can always mount the HDDs in a Windows PC, reformat, and then run the product locally from host PC.