Should I let this finish or should I consider this drive a lost cause?
Do I let this continue for 23 days ? 
For the record, this disk passes SMART, but my attempt to format it has been met with slow estimates?
WOW!!!
Dude cancel the process and RMA your drive.
unless of course you want to wait a year to see if it works.
This actually worked… took a few days. The drive now erases in about ten seconds and is operating normally. I wonder what the **bleep** was wrong…
no idea… but I’m happy for you.
