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?
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?
If the drive has Instant Secure Erase ISE or something, you can get it done in just few minutes. Data in rendered unreadable.
This is why I do full disk encryption always. Throwing it out is much easier.
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!