I bought some used HGST HUS726040ALS211 Self-Encrypting SAS HDDs off eBay and I'm trying to figure out how use them on Windows 10. I have no interest in whatever data is already on them, as I'll be wiping and overwriting all of it anyway in the process of using these drives.

I'm still very much a noob at figuring out how to get some of the more "stubborn" SAS HDDs I've bought from eBay to work for me. I say "stubborn" because 90% of all the used SAS HDDs I've bought have just been a simple matter of connecting to my SAS HBA through a hot swap bay, and then Initializing and Formatting them in the Computer Management -> Disk Management GUI. Some sellers even went the extra mile and did one or both of these actions in advance, essentially making those SAS HDDs Plug-and-Play. I only recently finally figured out how to get another 5% of the ones I've bought, NetApp SAS HDDs, to work by internally reformatting them from 520 to 512 via the Windows version of the sg_format command line tool. However, the remaining 5% of my used SAS HDDs have proven even more stubborn than those NetApp ones, as this is what happens when I try running sg_format on them:



After doing some of my own research, I find out that sedutil-cli is a solution. So, I hunt down a Windows version of that next, but it seems like it can't work with my HGST SED SAS HDDs:



I know that the \\.\PhysicalDrive2 is the correct target because it's labeled as Disk 2 in the Disk Management GUI, and the other two drives are just regular NVMe SSDs attached directly to my motherboard. After doing a little more research, I found that HGST SED HDDs apparently use TCG Enterprise Encryption rather than TCG Opal Standard Encryption, but I haven't found a solution for that yet. Everywhere I've searched so far keeps pointing back to sedutil-cli, which won't work, so I've hit a dead end. I'm hoping someone here with more experience has a solution. Hopefully it's a free solution, because if I had any significant amount of money, I would've just bought other used SAS HDDs that are easier to work with and kicked the can down the road on these SED SAS HDDs. However, given the rising cost of every type of digital storage lately, even that alternative solution is becoming untenable, so here I am.

I've transcribed all the text information from the label on one of the HGST SED SAS HDDs I'm trying to work with, in case that helps find a solution:



The black boxes are a QR Code that simply contains the same text next to it, which I'm assuming is the password needed to unlock and use it. However, if necessary, I'll also take pictures of this label and post those here as well, since there's a row of symbols/logos on it near the bottom that I couldn't really turn into text, at least not easily, as well as a handful of Japanese characters that I felt weren't worth going to all the trouble of transcribing.