Re: Dying hard drive?

[Veljko <veljko3@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:24:42PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 08:59:05AM +0200, Veljko wrote:
> > Do you guys have any advice for this? Should I first run dd on those drives.
> > They are part of RAID, so it should be difficult to read data from one drive
> > alone, but what is the best way to be sure? And obviously, I'll have to return
> > more than one drive.
> 
> Running dd is fine, shred [options] /dev/sd? is even better.

But shred will take forever to finish. Well, guess there is no quicker way. 

Regards,
Veljko