Question Wiping an SSD with bad sectors to return it under warranty ?

[JohnSSD]

I am one of the unlucky ones who bought a 4TB Samsung 870 EVO from the (known) bad batch around Q1 of 2021. 🙁

The SSD failed with "bad sectors" all over the place and it's under warranty (3rd year out of 5 years).
Obviously I want to return it and get a replacement but, despite the bad sectors, by using several disk utilities like easyus, aomei, minitool etc. it is possible TO READ the data that was written to it.
So I need to erase or wipe this data (because there are personal files there) before I return it.
I tried the "wipe function" of the tools I mentioned above but they do not seem to work, all stuck at 0% ?

Any ideas on how can I wipe the data so I can return it?

TIA

 

[JohnSSD]

Did you actually recover some of those files to a different drive?
Or are you just going by a list of filenames that you are being shown?

Full recovery. Sometimes slow, but usually fast.

 

[Bob.B]

Just looked and my Gigabyte Ultra gaming MB has indeed "SSD Secure Erase".

The faulty SSD is out of that computer though, (that already has 4 other Samsung SSDs up and running).
(For my previous 8-days wipe attempt I used an older laptop and a case to pus the SSD so its bios doesn't have it.)

If I plug the faulty SSD again to my main PC how do I proceed? ( I don't want to wipe another SSD by mistake).
That BIOS SSD secure Erase is it any different in "technology" then those programs in windows? Or it is the same and will probably fail?

(I'm asking it like that because there is a fuss to pull out the PC, open it, unplug all the other drives just to be sure that I won't wipe them by mistake etc.)

I have never used the bios secure erase.

I would only have the problem disk connected when using the option that way there is no chance of it wiping some other disk..