Hello If you have a data handling policy then it would be best to follow that policy. You will likely need to attach the drive to a pass-through controller of some type to use data destruction software. If you want to use the controller to wipe the data then you can create a single drive RAID 0 with the drive. During virtual disk creation you can choose the option to perform a full initialization. A full initialization will write zeroes to the drive. [URL] Thanks
I have a Poweredge R520 w/PERC H710 mini controller and 2 SAS drives in Raid1 mirrored config.  One drive was recently replaced but is now showing 'predicted failure' so I need to remove it and return it.  Since it has data on it, I want to remove the data, but will be replacing the drive first.  What is the best way to do this?  I don't want to wipe or compromise the data on the virtual disk but also don't want to send back a disk with all our data on it
PE R520 RAID1 predicted drive failure-need to wipe bad drive