Just out of curiosity, have you tried going down to the grocery store,
picking up some dry ice, packing the disk in a box with dry ice and
padding, and see if it runs any longer if you keep it cool?
On 11/11/2011 9:58 PM, David Mann wrote:
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
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