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I fucked up Seagate 2TB Seagate USB drive

  • I assume you've don't this before and the Synology uses a disk format that Mac can read?

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    Had a storage machine in cold storage and unpowered for almost an entire year. Advice on insuring data integrity on startup?

  • Not much you can do after it's been storage. Boot it up. It will work or it wont.

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    How to fully format external HD without leaving it running for days?

  • You need to perform a low level format to get all of the bad sectors marked. After that, you can partition and perform a normal format. When that is complete, if it still shows as bad in CrystalDickInfo, I wouldn't trust it.

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