Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors. You have backups of the data so you’ve got that part covered, but would you feel comfortable sending the drive in to be warrantied? You have no control over who has access to that drive, and due to the drive failing you can’t format it as well. Do you take the financial hit and buy a new drive, or send it in regardless and risk someone looking through your files? I’v...
