I am not a hardware guru; but I recently performed a LLF - checking the "perform quick wipe... " option.
It appeared to run successfully based on info below; but the drive seems unusable now.
The drive is a Seagate ST375033 with Firmware SD15 as seen below.
I've posted the current device details first.
Then the results of the LLF I did which "completed". (and, amazingly it just did it again - after failing a number of attempts previously, which prompted this post!!??)
So now I guess my REAL question has to be "does this drive 'look' usable?"
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Current date and time: 23-Jun-16 1:27:58 PM
HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.40;
http://hddguru.comDevice details for [8] ST375033 0AS SD15 [750.15 GB] (1465149168 512-byte sectors)
Model: ST3750330AS
Firmware Revision: SD15
Serial Number: 9QK03KAL
PHYSICAL PARAMETERS:
LBA mode is supported
LBA-48 mode is supported
Sectors available with LBA commands: 268,435,455
Sectors available with LBA48 commands: 1,465,149,168
Full device capacity: 750,156,374,016 bytes
SECURITY:
Security features is supported
The device is currently not locked
FEATURES:
SMART is supported
HPA (Host-protected area) is supported
AAM (Automatic acoustic management) is not supported
Streaming feature set is not supported
QUEUING:
Command Queuing is supported by the device
Maximum Queue Depth: 32
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22-Jun-16 2:56:50 PM * * * * * WARNING!!! * * * * *
22-Jun-16 2:56:50 PM DURING THE LOW LEVEL FORMAT PROCESS
22-Jun-16 2:56:50 PM ALL DATA WILL BE FULLY and IRREVERSIBLY ERASED!
22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM
22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM =================================================
22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.40;
http://hddguru.com22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM Low level format: [1] ST375033 0AS SD15 [750.15 GB] (1465149168 512-byte sectors)
22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM Device capacity: 1,465,149,168 sectors
22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM Locking device...
22-Jun-16 3:16:25 PM Formatting...
22-Jun-16 3:16:54 PM Average speed: 0.4 MB/s
22-Jun-16 3:16:54 PM Low-level format is complete.
22-Jun-16 3:17:02 PM
22-Jun-16 3:17:02 PM Remember to create new partitions.
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Just now ...
23-Jun-16 1:26:43 PM * * * * * WARNING!!! * * * * *
23-Jun-16 1:26:43 PM DURING THE LOW LEVEL FORMAT PROCESS
23-Jun-16 1:26:43 PM ALL DATA WILL BE FULLY and IRREVERSIBLY ERASED!
23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM
23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM =================================================
23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.40;
http://hddguru.com23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM Low level format: [8] ST375033 0AS SD15 [750.15 GB] (1465149168 512-byte sectors)
23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM Device capacity: 1,465,149,168 sectors
23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM Locking device...
23-Jun-16 1:31:15 PM Formatting...
23-Jun-16 1:31:53 PM Average speed: 0.3 MB/s
23-Jun-16 1:31:53 PM Low-level format is complete.
23-Jun-16 1:31:53 PM
23-Jun-16 1:31:53 PM Remember to create new partitions.
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Current SMART data
Current date and time: 23-Jun-16 1:42:43 PM
HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.40;
http://hddguru.comSMART data for [8] ST375033 0AS SD15 [750.15 GB] (1465149168 512-byte sectors)
Attribute Current Worst Raw Note
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1 01 Read error rate 98 85 197747537
3 03 Spin up time 93 93 0
4 04 Number of spin-up times 100 100 116
5 05 Reallocated sectors count 100 100 2046
7 07 Seek error rate 65 60 197699721893
9 09 Power-on time 57 57 37720
10 0A Spin-up retries 100 100 0
12 0C Power Cycles 100 100 83
184 B8 End to End Error 100 100 0
187 BB Reported Uncorrectable 100 100 0
188 BC Command Time Out 100 98 785991008440
189 BD High Fly Writes 28 28 72
190 BE Airflow Temperature 60 55 673054760
194 C2 HDA Temperature 40 45 40 (40 degrees)
195 C3 Hardware ECC recovered 49 13 197747537
197 C5 Current pending sectors 100 100 1
198 C6 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 1
199 C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 200 200 0
Why this is scattered all over I do not know. It's straight from your results?