Just curious....When sending drives back for replacements, is anyone worried about what they stored on their drives, personal pictures, and rips that regardless if they are legit maybe the manufacture might not know they are, etc., are you worried that they get access to your data?  No one knows what they do once they get the drive from you. 

 

I'm sure there are people who don't care and people who do.  I personally don't care what they do with the drive; if I had issues with the data on the drive as far as sensitive information, it would never go back to them, it would get crushed at work and I would just buy a new one.  Just curious what everyone thought about it. 

Same thoughts as you. Don't really care, but certain someone can share horror stories.

I would think bubbaq would have insight into what to use for nearly complete removal of personal data.

 

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I'm talking about you suffer a drive failure and you can't access your data, for instance, the board dies and you don't have another to replace it with.  I've done that three times before, was able to have a same model and able to get the board off the working drive and it worked fine on the failed drive until I got the data off, wiped it DoD standard of 7 times switched the boards back and sent it in.  If a drive has errors on it and is about to fail I DoD wipe it, sometimes twice, and then send it back.

You do more than I do when returning drives.

 

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Wiping more than once is uncalled for.  No one can recover data after one overwrite.

 

I preclear and burn in drives when I get them, even if they then sit on the shelf for 3 years.  Once a drive has been used with live data, if I can not wipe a drive, it does not go back for replacement.  Ever.  Period.