It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Immolation_E on 2024-07-11 17:49:25.

I have a drive that I'm trying to return to a vendor for RMA that will no longer mount. I received it a few weeks ago and installed it in a DAS. It seemed fine at first and I formatted it APFS. As I was copying a folder it disconnected and started making whirring sounds. I rebooted everything and I could see about 4GB copied, but the folder is greyed and I can't see what's in it. After a failed reformat it stopped mounting on my Mac.

Windows disk manager sees it but will not let me format it. Mac disk utility doesn't even see it anymore. When I try to run DBAN on it, I get finished with non-fatal errors. Any other options?