Choosing the wrong address isn’t just a wasted half hour. A physically failing drive has a limited number of spin-ups left in it, and nobody can tell you how many. Every hand-off, every plug-in, every “let’s see if it comes up on our machine” spends some of that budget — and the ones spent at a counter that can’t do anything with the drive anyway are spent for nothing.

That’s the real cost of a listing that isn’t a laboratory. The drive gets handled, powered, boxed, driven several hundred miles and handled again before anyone qualified sees it — and by then the case can be materially worse than it was in your hand. A drive that was recoverable on Monday sometimes isn’t by Friday, and nothing in the chain will tell you when that happened, because it’s been lost.

So the thirty seconds on Street View isn’t pedantry. It’s the difference between one controlled trip and several uncontrolled ones. Unplug the drive, check the address, then call — and if it’s clicking, grinding, was dropped or isn’t detected, don’t power it on again while you decide.