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[mikeism]

Can anybody recommend a drive erasing/cleaning utility, that when used, could erase/clean a hard drive so that it could be re-inserted into the DND-323 device and have the drive appear as a new unformatted/unpartitioned hard drive? 

I had an issue with a failure on the right hand drive in a mirrored RAID 1 configuration.  I think this was a one-time fluke because both drives were new with very little data on them and the unit re-mirrored itself and I've had no problems since.  However, at the time it happen, I would rather have removed both drives, erased/cleaned them, and started over because it would have taken much less time than having the DND-323 automatically re-mirror the drives.  Two 500GB drives took over 1.5 hour to RAID 1 re-mirror.

Mike

[Fatman]

You can drop these drives in any PC to delete their partitions, or are you talking about a DoD style wipe?

Windows Vista/XP/2000: Right click on My Computer and choose Manage.  Choose storage and then Disk Management from the left hand side.  Choose your drive and delete the partitions.
Windows the earlier: Click on the Start Menu, Choose Run, type cmd and hit enter.  Type fdisk, enjoi.
Macintosh:  Finder->Utilities->Drive Management
Linux: cfdisk is my preferred method, if you want a GUI go with Gparted

[mikeism]

That's pretty easy :-)  Thanks!

Mike