Checking The Drive Condition; Formatting Drives - Buffalo TeraStation 3420DN User Manual

Chapter 4 Storage Management
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The S.M.A.R.T. information for the drive will be displayed. Different information may be displayed depending
on the brand of drives on your TeraStation. Critical attributes are displayed in bold.

Checking the Drive Condition

Attributes with the worst value that is equal to or less than the threshold value may be significant. If an attribute
reports a failure, or has had one in the past, it will be displayed in the status column. In such a case, replacing that
drive is recommended.

Formatting Drives

Note: Under some circumstances, data deleted when a drive is formatted can be recovered. To ensure that data is
"gone forever", a format might not be sufficient. Refer to the
below.
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From Settings, click Storage.
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Click Drives to format an internal drive or USB Drives to format an external drive.
"Erasing Data on the TeraStation Completely"
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