RMAing a large HDD that has pirated movies/games on it, is it necessary to completely zero the drive?
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?
Recently had a Seagate Ironwolf fail in its first couple months, it had 10Tb of my personal Blu-ray movie backup archive on it. They recovered it and sent it back on an external drive for free. Nobody cares