You can use the Erase option to prepare an unassigned drive
for removal from the system. This procedure permanently removes data,
ensuring that the data cannot be read again.
Before
you begin
The drive must be in an Unassigned state.
About
this task
Use the Erase option only if you want to permanently
remove all data on a drive. If the drive is secure-enabled, the Erase
option performs a cryptographic erase and resets the drive's security
attributes back to secure-capable.
Note: The Erase feature
does not support some older drive models. If you attempt to erase
one of these older models, an error message appears.
- Select Hardware .
- If the graphic shows the controllers,
click Show front of shelf .
The graphic changes to show the drives instead of the
controllers.
- Optionally,
you can use the filter fields to view all the unassigned drives in
the shelf. From the Show drives that are... drop-down list, select Unassigned.
The shelf view shows only the unassigned drives; all others
are grayed out.
- To open the
drive's context menu, click on a drive that you want to erase. (If
you want to select multiple drives, you can do so in the Erase Drives
dialog box.)
CAUTION:
Possible loss of data – The Erase
operation cannot be undone. Make sure you select the correct drives
during the procedure.
- From the context
menu, select Erase.
The Erase Drives dialog box opens, showing all the eligible
drives for an erase operation.
- If desired, select additional drives from the table. You
cannot select all drives; be sure one drive remains deselected.
- Confirm the
operation by typing erase, and then click Erase .
CAUTION:
Be sure you want to continue with this operation. Once
you click Yes in the next dialog, the operation
cannot be aborted.
- In the Estimated Completion time dialog box, click Yes to continue with the erase operation.
The Erase operation
might take several minutes or several hours. You can view the status
in . When the Erase operation completes,
the drives are available for use in another volume group or disk pool,
or in another storage array.
If you want
to use the drive again, you must initialize it first. To do this,
select Initialize from the drive's context
menu.