On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:41 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > I think you are being paranoid, but I don't think you're wrong. Call it a > healthy dose of paranoia. > > If you send it in under warranty, are you likely to get your old drive - with > your photos intact - back in a new shitty enclosure? Or are you likely to get > a new (refurbished) drive in a new (refurbished) shitty enclosure? > > In your place, I'd spend the bucks for a new quality enclosure and try to > install the drive in it. Not perhaps the best option, but maybe the least > worrisome.
I was thinking about this earlier, and thought you could just nuke the partition table, which takes a matter of seconds. But then I wondered if they'd refurbish and resell it, and I guess that's the major concern. I guess the best thing would be to ask them as they're sure to have a policy on such matters. If they don't, they should. I would think that they'd do a low-level format at the very least. They'd need to account for the fact that some people might leave porn / viruses on it, or indeed sensitive data, and they'd need to prevent the possibility of embarrassment. As it happens I'm currently running DBAN on five hard drives from old machines at my partner's work... They're 40Gb IDE drives and are taking about 3-1/2 hours each on a not-too-paranoid setting. I'd hate to think how long a 3Tb drive would take. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
