Disk Utility Taking Forever to Erase and Reformat
I just bought a SanDisk Exteme 500GB external SSD drive. It was formatted with ExFAT. I opened Disk Utility to erase and reformat it. I didn't pay attention to any options. It's now been running for a day and a half, with no indication of status. (It says Erasing "SanDisk Extreme SSD Media" and creating "SanDisk" (I put in a shorter name), underneath a thermometer that's blue all the way, left to right, and hasn't changed, and underneath it says "Running." Underneath that, the details it shows are the same as above, a repeat of Erasing "SanDisk Extreme SSD Media" and creating "SanDisk".) The disk itself is warm.
Is there a way of telling whether there's any progress being made or it's stuck? Should I let it keep going? If so, how long? Disk Utility won't let me do anything else in the meantime, won't eject the disk and won't quit, so if I want to quit I'd have to either Force Quit or restart my computer, which might also involve force quitting.
I'm using a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2019) with Catalina 10.15.7. The external disk is connected with USB-C.
MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15
