Sanitizing a Drive
You can erase the data residing on a drive using the Sanitize feature. The Sanitize option is similar to the Drive Erase feature that is already supported by your controller, except that the Sanitize option is performed by the drive firmware, whereas the Drive Erase feature is performed by the controller firmware.
The Sanitize option is an industry standard SCSI feature. It uses industry standard Sanitize SCSI Block command. The Sanitize operation is constantly monitored the by controller firmware and the drive sanitization progress events are notified to you through Background Operations Support.
To Sanitize a drive, you must make sure that:
- The selected drive is in an Unconfigured Good state.
- The selected drive is not a JBOD drive.
- The selected drive is not part of any array, dedicated spare drive, or global spare drive.
Sanitize operation is enabled only when no other operation is in progress on the selected drive.
When the Sanitize operation is in progress, you cannot perform any other operation on the drive that is being sanitized.
Perform the following steps to sanitize a drive: