There is something about my geek psyche that makes me find it deeply fulfilling when someone in the store overhears me ordering a hard drive that is so large they feel the need to exclaim 🙂
Meanwhile, several hours later, it’s still writing out many billion zeroes to the disk (Disk Utility’s original estimate was 6 hours, we’re now coming up on 11. Yes, the progress bar is still increasing). I’m glad I don’t have to do a secure erase of it!
Annoyingly this drive (Seagate) doesn’t have an ‘old style’ power connector, so I couldn’t plug it in where I wanted to. Looks like I’ll have to find an ‘old style’ to modern SATA power cable, which I’m pretty sure I have lying around somewhere, otherwise it’s off to the shops again…