The manufacturer requires that the faulty HDD be sent back. It’s 18 TB, so ShredOS estimates 100 hours to completely wipe the drive. I really would rather not go through that. Does anyone else have experience with this?

  • Celcius_87BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Let’s say the drive was full of pirated movies and games. Then you send it back to them. What’s the worst that can happen - has anyone ever HEARD of an hdd manufacturer making a stink about it?

  • Dish_MelodicBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    If the drive has Instant Secure Erase ISE or something, you can get it done in just few minutes. Data in rendered unreadable.

  • Downtown-Pear-6509BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is why I do full disk encryption always. Throwing it out is much easier.

  • TorrentplsZOMGBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    No one will mind. If it lets you sleep better at night, wipe it if possible. They just put it onto a test system, see if it is really broken and throw it into a bin container for recycling.

    Worst that can happen is, that someone want’s to have your movie collection and restores it off the HDD on a side setup for personal use. No one will forward it to the movie association for legal prosecution!