Removing HDD before selling

Hi,

I’m thinking of selling my older GEN1 MyCloud.
Before this I removed the HDD and keep this one.

Offcourse the MyCloud has got an Platino motherboard on it, Im just curious if this still contains private data, or can I just sell it without my HDD and everything is fine?

I didnt do any reset or whatever before, because I couldnt got connected anymore to this mycloud.

For the single bay/single drive My Cloud, generally all the user data in addition to the firmware is stored on the My Cloud hard drive. One can perform a 40 second reset which should reset the My Cloud back to defaults. But to securely wipe/erase the hard drive would require one to either access the My Cloud Dashboard > Settings > Utilities page and perform a Full Factory Restore, or extract the hard drive and wipe the drive using third party drive erasure programs.

My Cloud OS 3: Pin Reset & System Only Restore
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/27402

My Cloud OS 3: Access the Dashboard on a (single bay) My Cloud
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/15104

My Cloud:System, Quick and Full Restore a (single bay) My Cloud
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/3034

My Cloud OS 3: Differences Between System Only, Quick and Full Restore
https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/27154

What DSW is alluding to is the fact that on the GEN1 mycloud; the OS resides on the HDD.

If you remove the HDD; and replace it; you have to go through an “un bricking” procedure to reinstall an OS on the HDD.