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Not sure, but is this a new array with new drives or reusing old drives that had data ?<br />
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If you are creating from scratch in any case, I do not think scrubbing is needed since all data pointers are set to 0 and everything will be overwritten, so ther is no previous data to worry about.<br />
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I hope this helps !
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Not sure, but is this a new array with new drives or reusing old drives that had data ?

If you are creating from scratch in any case, I do not think scrubbing is needed since all data pointers are set to 0 and everything will be overwritten, so ther is no previous data to worry about.

   
I hope this helps !

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I used the acu to create the array and sik management to finish it off, &nbsp;someon brought up scrubbing. &nbsp;This option was not availble in the acu. is it necessary? Is it automatic if the option is unavailable. when is it necessary to scrub? any details on scrubbing would help.
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I used the acu to create the array and sik management to finish it off,  someon brought up scrubbing.  This option was not availble in the acu. is it necessary? Is it automatic if the option is unavailable. when is it necessary to scrub? any details on scrubbing would help.

Scrubbing drives

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Storage

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