I have some SAS spinning disks, and SSDs, that were in enterprise storage arrays. One characteristic they share is that they are formatted to 520 bytes per block rather than 512. In order to use them ...
You don't really low level format it, you just use a program that will write over all the data on the drive a few times to erase it. Google for "disk wipe", and also ...
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