I bought a second hand 8tb 3.5 Exos drive. I had to initialize it after first boot, but upon closer inspection with HxD (program to edit and scan hex files and disk) I found some data lying on its tracks. After creating a simple volume Recuva found a few things. I'm not really that interested in the old contents but I'd prefer to zero it all entirely before using it.Question: is there a quick way to do this if I'm using it through a external usb 3.0 enclosure (on a laptop, so no direct SATA connection)? On Windows. Like a command I can push for it to zero itself quickly? it's going to take a while to use diskpart and 'clean all' on it....Can DBAN do that considering it's through USB? I don't mind random data written but I'd prefer just zeroes (muh autism). Also this is the first "big" drive I ever used, biggest thing I used is a 2tb 2.5 drive. This newer desktop drive makes a few sounds that I just wanna make sure are normal, it sounds like it tries to spin up twice at first (that, ehh... sound a drive makes but a bit longer) and after unplugging it, it spins down, then like 5 seconds after being silent makes a second track seek noise, probably just parking its heads (but it's odd it takes several seconds after poweroff)
I would boot some live Linux from USB and run as root:dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=4K status=progresswhere sdX is the disk to be wiped. Identify correct disk with command lsblk. Be careful not to wipe the wrong one.Works through USB. I suppose DBAN would too.
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